Pedro Francisco Bonó y Mejía (October 18, 1828 – September 13, 1906) was a Dominican politician, sociologist and intellectual. He is credited with being the first Dominican sociologist. He was the

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of the

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in 1858. Bonó was born in 1828, to Joseph Bonó (a ranchman and trader of Italian origin) and Inés Mejía y Port. His maternal grandmother,

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Eugénie Port, a native of

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(North-Western France) who had large plantations and fortune in the

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until the outbreak of the

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, taught him the

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and fashioned him intellectually. A

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in Santo Domingo is named after him.

Publications

* El Montero (1856) * Apuntes para los Cuatro Ministerios de la República (1857) * Apuntes sobre las Clases Trabajadoras Dominicanas (1881) * Congreso Extraparlamentario (1895) * Epistolario * Ensayos Sociohistóricos * Actuación Pública * Papeles de Pedro Francisco Bonó (Works collected by Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, 1963)

References

1828 births 1906 deaths Presidents of the Senate of the Dominican Republic People from Santiago Province (Dominican Republic) Dominican Republic people of Breton descent Dominican Republic people of Italian descent {{DominicanRepublic-politician-stub