Pedro Santana

Pedro Santana

Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (29 June 1801 – 14 June 1864) was a Dominican military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a precursor to the position of the President of the Dominican Republic, and as the first President of the republic in the modern line of succession. A traditional royalist who was fond of the Monarchy of Spain and the Spanish Empire, he ruled as a governor-general, but effectively as an authoritarian dictator. During his life he enjoyed the title of "Libertador de la Patria." Santana was a lifelong supporter of the Dominican revolt against the Haitian occupation and a noted general during the Dominican War of Independence (1844–1856). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Santana has received more than 200,738 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pedro Santana is the 10,588th most popular politician (down from 9,721st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 15th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Haitian Politician.