Francisco Augusto Lora González (1910–1993), was a Dominican politician. He was the Vice-President of the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

and a presidential candidate for several years 1966, 1970, 1974 and 1978. Serving as the Vice-President, he also was a member of President

Joaquín Balaguer Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer who was the 41st, 45th and 49th president of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms from 1960 t ...

's Reformist Party (known as the Partido Reformista). During political disputes of the time, in 1970 Balaguer threatened to leave the Reformist Party(PR) and decided to campaign outside of the organization. Thus, Augusto Lora was effectively forced out of the party and went on to become the leader of and ultimately the candidate for a new political party, the Movement for Democratic Integration Against Reelection (MIDA). Lora was born in Santiago and was descended from Basilio Fondeur, a Frenchman, brother of Colonel Furcy Fondeur.

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