Pedro Santana, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (29 June 1801 – 14 June 1864) was a Dominican military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a precursor to the position of the President of the Dominican Republic, and as the first President of the republic in the modern line of succession. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Santana