José María Cabral y Báez (1864–1937) was a lawyer, businessman, and politician from the Dominican Republic.
He served as the President of Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic in 1901.
He also begat 3 children with Estela Navarro: Mairení, José and Raúl Cabral Navarro; with Rafaela Meyreles he sired 2 children: Rafael and Enrique Meyreles.
[2] In 1886, he founded in Santiago the law firm J. M. Cabral y Báez.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1908 to November 1911, during the last half of Ramón Cáceres’s presidential term, and minister during the short presidency of Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal in 1916, before the American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24).