Background
Cabral y Báez was born to President Marcos Antonio Cabral and Altagracia Amelia Báez (daughter of President Buenaventura Báez). He had 7 siblings, among them, Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez.
Cabral y Báez was born to President Marcos Antonio Cabral and Altagracia Amelia Báez (daughter of President Buenaventura Báez). He had 7 siblings, among them, Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez.
He also begat 3 children with Estela Navarro: Mairení, José and Raúl Cabral Navarro. With Rafaela Meyreles he sired 2 children: Rafael and Enrique Meyreles. In 1886, he founded in Santiago the law firm J. M. Cabral y Báez.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1908 to November 1911, during the last half of Ramón Cáceres’s presidential term, and minister during the short presidency of Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal in 1916, before the American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924).