Héctor Rafael García-Godoy Cáceres ( Moca, January 11, 1921 –

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, April 20, 1970) was a politician from the

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. He served as

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from September 3, 1965, until July 1, 1966, following the

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. García-Godoy was the grandson of the Cuban-born Dominican poet

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and the Dominican President

Ramón Cáceres Ramón Arturo Cáceres Vasquez (15 December 1866, Moca, Dominican Republic – 19 November 1911, Santo Domingo), nicknamed Mon Cáceres, was a Dominican politician and minister of the Armed Forces. He was the 31st president of the Dominican Repu ...

. He was also the cousin of the Dominican painter Darío Suro.

Service

After serving as a diplomat in the mid-1940s, García-Godoy was employed at the Foreign Ministry and served on the board of directors of the Reserve Bank. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the

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in 1955. In 1963, he served as foreign minister under Juan Bosch, whose government was overthrown later that year. Afterward he temporarily acted as president and organized the 1966 elections in which

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regained the presidency. Balaguer subsequently appointed him as ambassador to the United States in 1966, serving until 1969.

References

Biography
at the ''Enciclopedia Virtual Dominicana'' 1921 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Dominican Republic politicians People from Espaillat Province People from Moca, Dominican Republic Dominican Republic people of Cuban descent Dominican Republic people of English descent Dominican Republic people of Galician descent Dominican Republic people of Spanish descent Presidents of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic expatriates in the United States White Dominicans {{DominicanRepublic-politician-stub