Leonel Fernández is the formal President for the Dominican Republic. President Fernández is married to Mrs. Margarita Cedeño and has three children named Nicole and Omar Fernández Domeínguez and Yolanda América María Fernández Cedeño. President Leonel was born December 26th 1953 in San Domingo. Leonel and his family moved up to Manhattan, New York when he was a child. While he was there he was taught Middle School and High School. He concluded his High School education in Louis D. Brandeis High School, located in the Upper West Side in Manhattan. After High School in Manhattan, Leonel decided to move back to the Dominican Republic and go to The Autonomous University of San Domingo (UASD). When he finished that University he knew he wanted to be involved in politics somehow. He showed his compassion by writing books about Wars and The Reagan Plan. Finally in 1996, President Ferández became president for the Dominican Republic and kept on winning the elections every 4 years until August 16, 2008, when President Leonel won his third term as President of the Dominican Republic again.
