Manuel de Jesús Galván

Died in 1910

Manuel de Jesús Galván was born in 1834 in Santo Domingo, then under Haitian rule. Founder in 1854 of the society Los Amantes de las Letras and of the newspaper El Oasis, and secretary to President Pedro Santana, he supported the country's annexation to Spain, then went into exile in Puerto Rico after the War of Restoration. Back home, he was several times minister of foreign affairs and presided over the Supreme Court from 1883 to 1889. He died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1910.

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