Francisco Gregorio Billini
Francesco ( Francisco) Gregorio Billini y Regla ( born May 25, 1844 in Santo Domingo, † 1898 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican writer, politician and president of the Dominican Republic.
Biography
Billini began his political career early on as a resistance fighter during the occupation of the Dominican Republic by Spain in the years 1861 to 1865 and participated as such in 1864 under the command of José María Cabral at the Battle of La Canela and the struggles of Pizarrete in part, why he was taken from the Spanish occupying power in caught and released until 1865. After the Restoration of the Republic ( RESTAURACIÓN ) he was therefore a respected, aspiring politicians.
Between 1868 and 1874 he was next to Cabral, Gregorio Luperon and Antonio Pimentel of the leading opponents of the rule of Buenaventura Báez and was also the founder of a newspaper that turned against Báez 's plan to annex the Republic to the United States. Finally, he was one of the signatories of a militant call the Blue Party ( Partido Azul ) to overthrow Báez. In 1879 he was Founds and until his death the editor of the newspaper "El Eco de la Opinión ", the leading newspaper of the Dominican Republic the 19th century, but also in other newspapers like " El Nacional ", " El Cable ", " Letras y Ciencias "," El Mensa jero "and" El Patriota " involved.
After the fall of Báez, he was elected in 1874 to the members of the Chamber of Deputies ( Cámara de Deputies ) and belonged from 1880 to 1882 the government of Fernando Arturo de Merino as the War and Navy Minister ( Ministro de Guerra y Marina) on. In 1882 he was then President of the Senate from ( Senado ) and Chamber of Deputies existing National Congress ( Congreso Nacional).
On September 1, 1884, he was with the support of the Blue party as the successor of Ulises Heureaux president of the Dominican Republic. His reign was gepräsgt by national measures to promote literacy and the adoption of by the liberal dominated Parliament, which brought him in contrast to his predecessor, " Lili " Heureaux and Luperon. One of the first measures of his government was the public announcement of a general amnesty, which enabled the return of Cesáreo Guillermo, the biggest opponent of the ruling Blue Party. This meant that he was already on 16 May 1885 printing of the Blue party in favor of the former Vice- President Alejandro Woss y Gil. In his resignation speech, he stated:
After the death of his uncle, Father Billini 1890 he became director of the school founded by this " Colegio San Luis Gonzaga ".
In addition to his political career, he also worked as a writer. Besides dramas appeared in 1892 " Bani o Engracia y Antoñita ", a tale with novella -like features, in which he describes the habits and social characteristics of the city of Bani. In 1882 he published his play " Amor y expiación ".
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Background literature
- Hostos, Eugenio María de: " Dos Cartas a Francisco Gregorio Billini " (PDF, 106 kB)