His father was Juan José Duarte Rodríguez, a Peninsular from Vejer de la Frontera, Kingdom of Seville, Spain, and his mother was Manuela Díez Jiménez from El Seibo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo three of Duarte's grandparents were Europeans. ĭuarte was born into a middle-class family that was dedicated to maritime trade and hardware in the port area of Santo Domingo. In his memoirs, the trinitarian José María Serra de Castro described Duarte as a man with a rosy complexion, sharp features, blue eyes, and a golden hair that contrasted with his thick, dark moustache. From these struggles, Santana emerged victorious while Duarte suffered in exile, despite coming back a few times, Duarte lived most of his remaining years in Venezuela until his death in 1876.ĭuarte was born on 26 January 1813 in Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo during the period commonly called España Boba. Duarte also disagreed strongly with royalist and pro- annexation sectors in the nation, especially with the wealthy caudillo and military strongman Pedro Santana, who sought to rejoin the Spanish Empire. ĭuarte helped inspire and finance the Dominican War of Independence, paying a heavy toll which would eventually ruin him financially. After the defeat of the Haitian President and the proclamation of the Dominican Republic in 1844, the Board formed to designate the first ruler of the nation and elected Duarte by a strong majority vote to preside over the nation but he declined the proposal, while Tomás Bobadilla took office instead. As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a national hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who along with military general Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted the Trinitario movement that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the Dominican War of Independence.ĭuarte became an officer in the National Guard and a year later in 1843 he participated in the "Reformist Revolution" against the dictatorship of Jean-Pierre Boyer, who threatened to invade the western part of the island with the intention of unifying it. "The Nation is obliged to preserve andprotect by means of wise and just laws, the personal, civil and individualfreedom as well as the property and other legitimate rights of all theindividuals that compose it.Juan Pablo Duarte (Janu– July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation. "How sad, long and tired, howdistressing path, the Divine Entity points out to the unfortunate exile." "To live without Homeland, is the sameas to live without honor."
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"The slave withstands his fate despitethat his sad life shames him But the free prefers death to the shame of such anexistence." "The Government must be fair and energetic… Or we will not have Nation and consequently neither freedom nor nationalindependence." "Let us work with and for our country,which is to work for our children and for ourselves." "There are words that because of theideas they reveal attract our attention and attract our sympathies towards thebeings that pronounce them."
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"God should grant me enough strength notto descend to the grave without leaving my country free, independent andtriumphant."
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"Our country must be free andindependent of any foreign power or the island sinks." To mark the important date newspaper El Dia highlightssome of his most celebrated phrases: Together with Matías Ramón Mella andFrancisco del Rosario Sanchez, Duarte began the process that liberated thenational territory after 22 years of Haitian occupation, on February 27, 1844. Santo Domingo.- Juan Pablo Duarte, founder ofthe Dominican Republic, was born on January 26,1813.