Tomás Bobadilla

Tomás Bobadilla y Briones (30 March 1785 – 21 December 1871) was a Dominican writer, intellectual and politician. The first ruler of the Dominican Republic, he had a significant participation in the movement for Dominican independence.

He was born in Neiba on 30 March 1785, son of Vicente Bobadilla Amaral, and Gregoria Justina Briones Pérez. He devoted to the political life and the writing.

In 1810, when he reached the age of majority in force at that time (25 years of age), Bobadilla obtained his certification of "Cleanliness of Blood", as all of both his paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents had been born in Europe, this certificate allowed him access to high public offices of the colonial administration, reserved to white Dominicans and Peninsulars.

From the period known as España Boba or "Fool Spain", he occupied very important positions. He was fellow of José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor and participated in politics during the Ephemeral Independence.

Bobadilla exerted the position of Public Scribe in 1811, and afterwards, he became Greater Notary of the Archbishop Pedro Valera y Jiménez.

During the ephemeral Independence, proclaimed by Núñez de Cáceres in late 1821, Bobadilla occupied the office of First Official of the General Treasury of the State, a few months before the Haitian annexation. Afterwards, in 1830, he was appointed public defender and notary of Santo Domingo, in 1831.

On 12 May 1832, he married in Santo Domingo to María Virginia Desmier D’Olbreuse y Allard, descendant of French colonists of noble origin from the House of Desmier-Olbreuse. They had had 5 children born out of wedlock: María del Carmen Leonor (b. 1823), María Vicenta (b. 1824), Gerardo (b. 1827), Carlos Tomás (b. 1830), José María (b. 1830); they had a daughter after their wedding: Clemencia Antonia (who was the mother of Adolfo Alejandro Nouel).

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