Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal

Francisco Hilario Henríquez y Carvajal (14 January 1859 – 6 February 1935)[1] was a medical doctor, lawyer, writer, educator and politician from the Dominican Republic, who served as president just prior to the U.S. occupation of the country.

Henríquez was born in Santo Domingo, to a family descended from Sephardic Jews who immigrated in the 19th century from Curaçao from the Netherlands.

He served as editor of the newspaper El Maestro, but left the country during the dictatorship of Ulises Heureaux.

He returned briefly to his country of birth following the interim government of Horacio Vásquez in 1903, but he left several months later.

Dominican educator and feminist Rosa Smester Marrero praised Henríquez in her writings while he was still alive.