General José María Cabral y Luna (born Ingenio Nuevo; December 12, 1816 in
San Cristóbal Province
San Cristóbal () is a province in the southern region of Dominican Republic, located west of the capital Santo Domingo. With approximately 642,000 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated province in the country, only behind Santo Domingo, S ...
– February 28, 1899 in
Santo Domingo
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) was a
Dominican military figure and politician. He served as the first
Supreme Chief of the Dominican Republic from August 4, 1865 to November 15 of that year and again officially as president from August 22, 1866 until January 3, 1868.
Early life and family
Cabral was born near San Cristóbal to a prominent and wealthy
Criollo
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People
* Criollo people, a social class in the Spanish race-based colonial caste system (the European descendants)
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family from
Hincha. His parents were Ramona de Luna y Andújar, who was cousin of the
Virgins of Galindo, and Juan Marcos Cabral y Aybar.
He was uncle of future Dominican president
Marcos Antonio Cabral.
Politics
Presidency
On August 17, 1865 President Cabral abolished
capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
and
banishment in the Dominican Republic.
References
Biographyat the ''Enciclopedia Virtual Dominicana''
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1816 births
1899 deaths
19th-century Dominican Republic politicians
People of the Dominican Restoration War
People from San Cristóbal Province
Presidents of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic military personnel
Dominican Republic revolutionaries
Dominican Republic politicians
Dominican Republic people of Portuguese descent
Dominican Republic people of Spanish descent
White Dominicans
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