Third Dominican Republic

Third Dominican Republic
1924–1965
Flag Coat of arms
Status	Dominican territory
Capital	Santo Domingo / Ciudad Trujillo
Common languages	Spanish
Government	Unitary presidential republic (1924-1930; 1962-1965) Unitary one-party presidential republic under a personalist dictatorship (1930-1962)
El Jefe
• 1930–1961	Rafael Trujillo
President (de jure)
• 1930–1938; 1942–1952	Rafael Trujillo
• 1938–1940	Jacinto Peynado
• 1940–1942	Manuel de Jesús Troncoso
• 1952–1960	Héctor Trujillo
• 1960–1962	Joaquín Balaguer
President (de facto)
• 1924–1930 (first)	Horacio Vásquez
• 1962–1963	Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly
• 1963	Juan Bosch
• 1963-1965	Donald Reid Cabral
History
• departure of US troops after the end of the first US occupation	1924
• Coup d'état	3 March 1930
• Assassination of Rafael Trujillo	30 May 1961
• Disestablished	24 April 1965
• Dominican Civil War ends	3 September 1965
Currency	Dominican peso
Preceded by Succeeded by United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) Second Republic (Dominican Republic) Dominican Civil War Dominican Republic
Today part of	Dominican Republic

The Third Republic of the Dominican Republic covers from July 12, 1924 with the departure of US troops after the end of the first US occupation, until April 28, 1965 with the disembarkation of American troops after the start of the April 1965 War and the second American occupation. This period is also known as the Age of Trujillo, because of the strong influence exerted by the Trujillo regime over much of these 41 years.

See also

• History of the Dominican Republic
• First Republic
• Second Republic