Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle (26 February 1902 – 15 April 1954) was a

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lawyer, historian, diplomat, and politician who served as a Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic between 1943 and 1946 and shaped its relation with

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in the 1940s. Peña Batlle was born in the city of San Carlos on 26 February 1902. At the age of 21, he graduated from the

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with a degree in international law. He wrote a number of works on the history of the Dominican Republic statehood and is considered one of the most important Dominican Republic historians. A

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in Santo Domingo is named after him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pena Batlle, Manuel Arturo 1902 births 1994 deaths Foreign ministers of the Dominican Republic 20th-century Dominican Republic historians White Dominicans