Manuel de Jesús Galván

Manuel de Jesús Galván (13 January 1834 – 13 December 1910) was a Dominican Republic politician, diplomat, lawyer and academic who between the 1860s and the 1900s occupied many of the highest posts in his country's government and judicature, including Minister of Public Works, Foreign Minister, President of the Supreme Court, and Minister to the United States. He was also a journalist and political writer. His only novel, Enriquillo (1879, 1882; translated as The Cross and the Sword, 1954), which tells the story of a native rebellion in the early days of the Spanish occupation of Hispaniola, holds a high place in 19th-century Latin American literature.