Career
Director of the review El Hogar of Santo Domingo, 1895. Secretary of the Boundary Commission, 1901. Director of the newspaper La Campaña of Santo Domingo, 1904.
Secretary to the President of the Republic, 1906, 1908. Consul general in Germany, since 1906. 1907; first secretary of the Dominican delegation to the Second Hague Conference, 1907.
Chargé d’affaires in Cuba, 1908-1912. Delegate to the Italian semicentennial, 1910. Chargé d'affaires in Rome, 1913.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, France, and Italy, 1915. Subdirector of the daily Heraldo de Cuba of Havana, 1917-1921. Member of the Nationalist Commission which secured the evacuation of United States military forces from Santo Domingo, Washington, D.C., 1920-1921.
On confidential mission to South America, 1921. Delegate plenipotentiary to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Pan-American Conferences, 1923, 1928, and 1933, respectively. Sub-secretary of foreign affairs, 1924.
Envoy extraordinary (on special mission) to the Centenary of Ayacucho, Lima, 1924. Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay, 1925-1929. Delegate plenipotentiary to the First Pan American Highway Conference, 1925.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, 19291931. To Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay, 1931. To Mexico since 1934.