Ignacio María González was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as provisional president of the Dominican Republic at various times throughout his career.
Politically the DR was a nation where dominance and violence prevailed in the quest for power leaving the people victims to a seemingly endless barrage of unprincipled, self-serving leaders alternating powers through force and guerilla war tactics. Decades of debilitating wars, conspiracies, and despotism drained the DR of resources and money while undermining its efforts to establish liberal constitutional rule.
From the Spanish withdrawal to 1879, there were twenty-one changes of government and at least fifty military uprisings. During the intervals when one leader was deposed, exiled or killed interim leaders were appointed.
From Jan 1874 to Sept 1878 Ignacio served 4 different times as Supreme Chief, once as President of the Government and once as General-in-chief.
He was president of the Republic for the first time in 1874-1876, when Buenaventura Baez had to give up in the middle of his fourth term. During his management he stabilized the economy with a reform plan, normalized relations with Spain and signed a treaty with Haiti securing the border between the 2 countries He served a second term of several months in 1876 and a third in 1878. It was a time of great political instability.
Under one of his terms of presidency, Ignacio María González rescinded annexation of DR to the US and saw the sugar cane industry revised.
After Gen Gonzalez death, the President of the Republic, Juan I. Jimenez declared that his body be buried in the Cathedral of America with presidential honors given heads of state, in addition to declaring three days of national mourning.
Politically the DR was a nation where dominance and violence prevailed in the quest for power leaving the people victims to a seemingly endless barrage of unprincipled, self-serving leaders alternating powers through force and guerilla war tactics. Decades of debilitating wars, conspiracies, and despotism drained the DR of resources and money while undermining its efforts to establish liberal constitutional rule.
From the Spanish withdrawal to 1879, there were twenty-one changes of government and at least fifty military uprisings. During the intervals when one leader was deposed, exiled or killed interim leaders were appointed.
From Jan 1874 to Sept 1878 Ignacio served 4 different times as Supreme Chief, once as President of the Government and once as General-in-chief.
He was president of the Republic for the first time in 1874-1876, when Buenaventura Baez had to give up in the middle of his fourth term. During his management he stabilized the economy with a reform plan, normalized relations with Spain and signed a treaty with Haiti securing the border between the 2 countries He served a second term of several months in 1876 and a third in 1878. It was a time of great political instability.
Under one of his terms of presidency, Ignacio María González rescinded annexation of DR to the US and saw the sugar cane industry revised.
After Gen Gonzalez death, the President of the Republic, Juan I. Jimenez declared that his body be buried in the Cathedral of America with presidential honors given heads of state, in addition to declaring three days of national mourning.
Ignacio María González was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as provisional president of the Dominican Republic at various times throughout his career.
Politically the DR was a nation where dominance and violence prevailed in the quest for power leaving the people victims to a seemingly endless barrage of unprincipled, self-serving leaders alternating powers through force and guerilla war tactics. Decades of debilitating wars, conspiracies, and despotism drained the DR of resources and money while undermining its efforts to establish liberal constitutional rule.
From the Spanish withdrawal to 1879, there were twenty-one changes of government and at least fifty military uprisings. During the intervals when one leader was deposed, exiled or killed interim leaders were appointed.
From Jan 1874 to Sept 1878 Ignacio served 4 different times as Supreme Chief, once as President of the Government and once as General-in-chief.
He was president of the Republic for the first time in 1874-1876, when Buenaventura Baez had to give up in the middle of his fourth term. During his management he stabilized the economy with a reform plan, normalized relations with Spain and signed a treaty with Haiti securing the border between the 2 countries He served a second term of several months in 1876 and a third in 1878. It was a time of great political instability.
Under one of his terms of presidency, Ignacio María González rescinded annexation of DR to the US and saw the sugar cane industry revised.
After Gen Gonzalez death, the President of the Republic, Juan I. Jimenez declared that his body be buried in the Cathedral of America with presidential honors given heads of state, in addition to declaring three days of national mourning.
Politically the DR was a nation where dominance and violence prevailed in the quest for power leaving the people victims to a seemingly endless barrage of unprincipled, self-serving leaders alternating powers through force and guerilla war tactics. Decades of debilitating wars, conspiracies, and despotism drained the DR of resources and money while undermining its efforts to establish liberal constitutional rule.
From the Spanish withdrawal to 1879, there were twenty-one changes of government and at least fifty military uprisings. During the intervals when one leader was deposed, exiled or killed interim leaders were appointed.
From Jan 1874 to Sept 1878 Ignacio served 4 different times as Supreme Chief, once as President of the Government and once as General-in-chief.
He was president of the Republic for the first time in 1874-1876, when Buenaventura Baez had to give up in the middle of his fourth term. During his management he stabilized the economy with a reform plan, normalized relations with Spain and signed a treaty with Haiti securing the border between the 2 countries He served a second term of several months in 1876 and a third in 1878. It was a time of great political instability.
Under one of his terms of presidency, Ignacio María González rescinded annexation of DR to the US and saw the sugar cane industry revised.
After Gen Gonzalez death, the President of the Republic, Juan I. Jimenez declared that his body be buried in the Cathedral of America with presidential honors given heads of state, in addition to declaring three days of national mourning.
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