Pedro Francisco Bonó


Pedro Francisco Bonó y Mejía was a Dominican politician, sociologist and intellectual. He is credited with being the first Dominican sociologist. He was the president of the Senate of the Dominican Republic in 1858.
Bonó was born in 1828, to Joseph Bonó and Inés Mejía y Port. His maternal grandmother, Doña Eugénie Port, a native of Brittany who had large plantations and fortune in the Saint-Domingue until the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution, taught him the French language and fashioned him intellectually.
A metro station in Santo Domingo is named after him.

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