[4] Manuel was educated at the Conciliar Seminary of St. Thomas Aquinas, graduating with a Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters degree on November 25, 1895.

He was attorney for the International Court and was a professor and dean of the law school and principal of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.

"Dominican Narratives"), La Ocupación de Santo Domingo por Haití (lit.

"The Occupation of Santo Domingo by Haiti"), El Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez (lit.

"Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez"), and Génesis de la Convención Dominico-Americana (lit.

), who became the first Dominican electress to ballot her vote on 16 May 1942 after women's suffrage was approved earlier that year.