Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos
Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos ( born July 19, 1871 in Santo Domingo, † May 25, 1935 ) was a Dominican politician and president of the Dominican Republic.
Life
The son of immigrant coming from Italy Juan Bautista Vicini, who came at the time of the resurgence of the sugar industry in the Dominican Republic and due to its good relations with Ulises Heureaux already in 1882 owner of two sugar cane plantations. 1892, his father was the owner of the sugar factory "Angelina" and acquired the following year the concession establishing the sugar mill Central Azuano. This economic success led to the Vicinis father was a major lender of dictator Lili Heureaux.
Vicini Burgos came after a wide-ranging education by private teachers, in addition to English, French and Italian also taught economics, early in his father's company, and became as its heritage as one of the pillars of the Dominican economy, which was based on the sugar industry and thereby a significant impact had on politics. Beginning of the 20th century, he was the founder and promoter of the seaside resort of Boca Chica.
Following the ratification of Hughes Peynado Plan, which provided for the termination of the occupation begun in 1916 by the United States, he was in 1922 elected president of the Dominican Republic and entered this office on October 6, 1922 as the successor to U.S. governor Samuel Robison on. The next, he appointed his cabinet, which consisted of foreign ministers Angel Morales, Interior Minister José del Carmen Ariza, Justice and Minister of Education Cayetano Armando Rodríguez, Construction and Communications Minister Eladio Sánchez, health and welfare minister Manuel Sanabia, agricultural and Immigration Minister Pedro Pérez and a represented another step towards ending the U.S. occupation. In his oath of office on October 21, 1921, he expressed his hope
" In the prudence and patriotism of the Dominican people in achieving the liberation plan ( " Plan de Evacuación " ) from, as well as in the high intentions and spirit of reparation and justice with which the great Dominican nation so many reviews in its efforts to strengthening of peace and the independence of other nations of the world has been exposed. "
His government was despite her own efforts concentrated by the agreements of Hughes Peynado Plan and is therefore subject to continuous pressure from the still in the country of U.S. troops. Nevertheless, he was one of the perform up to that fairest presidential elections which Horacio Vásquez emerged on 15 March 1924 as the clear winner of Francisco J. Peynado.
After the official handover to Vásquez on July 12, 1924, he withdrew completely from politics and returned to his company. At his death he left his heirs one of the largest Zuckerindustrieimperien the country. His half-brother Felipe Augusto Vicini Perdomo was married to a granddaughter of former President José María Cabral counter.