Tomás Bobadilla

Tomás Bobadilla y Briones (born March 30, 1785 in Neiba , † December 21, 1871 in Port-au-Prince ) was a Dominican politician and lawyer and the first president of the Junta Central Gubernativa Definitiva of the Dominican Republic.

Bobadilla was friends with José Núñez de Cáceres and already held important positions during the period of Spanish rule ( España Boba ). He became the notary public of Archbishop Pedro Valera in 1811 and was during the República del Haití Español Oficial Primero of the General Treasury during the República del Haití Español Oficial proclaimed by Núñez de Cáceres in 1821 . He later joined the Trinitarios independence movement and is considered the author of the Manifestación del 16 de enero de 1844 , the proclamation of the independence of the Dominican Republic.

On February 27, 1844, he took part in the reading of the proclamation by Francisco del Rosario Sánchez along with Matías Ramón Mella and others . He became a member of the Junta Central Gubernativa Provisional , led by Rosario Sánchez, and was elected President of the Junta Central Gubernativa Definitiva on March 1, 1844 .

On June 9, 1844, he was deposed by a coup d'état by Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella. General Pedro Santana responded with a coup d'état, declared himself President of the Republic and took over Bobadilla as a member of the government. He held important positions in the state until Santana sent him into exile in June 1847.

He returned to the Dominican Republic in 1848 and became a member of the Cámara del Consejo Conservador , and Santana made him Attorney General at the Supreme Court and eventually Judge at the Court of Appeal. From 1851 to 1853 he was President of the Supreme Court. He was also Minister Plenipotentiary for Relations with the United States.

Bobadilla also held influential positions under Presidents Manuel de Regla Motta , José Desiderio Valverde and Buenaventura Báez . During the renewed Spanish annexation in 1861 he was appointed Magistrado de La Real Audiencia by royal decree . After the end of the annexation he was entrusted with the revision of the penal code. In 1867 he became Minister of the Interior, Police and Foreign Affairs and Minister Plenipotentiary for the Negotiation of a Peace Treaty with Haiti. He left the Dominican Republic in 1868 and went to Puerto Rico. In 1871 he settled in Port-au-Prince, where he died in the same year at the age of 86.

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