Rafael Brache

Rafael Ángel Brache Ramírez (July 8, 1888 – ?) was a politician, civil servant, and diplomat from the Dominican Republic. His career in national politics spanned from 1914 to 1935, after which he spent much of his life in exile.

Brache was born in Moca, but lived in La Vega from an early age and considered that to be his home town. He was elected to the National Congress in 1914, aged 25, but resigned the following year to enter the diplomatic corps. Brache later worked as a senior civil servant for a period, and then in 1924 returned to the National Congress. He supported Rafael Trujillo's coup in 1930, and during the early years of his regime served as a diplomat and government minister. He was Ambassador to the United States from 1930 to 1931 and from 1934 to 1935, Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1933, and Secretary of Finance from 1933 to 1934. He remained in the U.S. after being dismissed as ambassador, and in 1937 was declared a "traitor to the homeland" for his opposition to Trujillo.

Brache was born in Moca to María Apolonia Ramírez Melert and Elías Brache Soriano. His father, who was born in Santo Domingo, was a music teacher and bandleader. Brache moved to La Vega when he was a small child, and attended school there. He followed his older brother Elías into politics, becoming chairman of the local municipal council at the age of 21. In 1914, aged 25, Brache was elected to represent La Vega in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress. He resigned the following year to take up the position of Consul-General in London (the equivalent of ambassador), and had his credentials received in February 1916.

As a result of his country's loss of sovereignty during the American military occupation, Brache served in London for only two years before being recalled. He returned to the National Congress at the 1924 general election, as a representative of the Patriotic Coalition of Citizens. Brache was a director of the party's newspaper, El Siglo ("The Century"), and also served for periods as Chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Director-General of Immigration, and as a delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

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