sentences:  Henríquez's father was Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, a doctor and politician who was also an intellectual who maintained permanent contact with the most important representatives of the Hispanic Modernism movements from the early 20th century.Henríquez Carvajal would become president of the Republic for a brief period in 1916, before the American occupation.He descended from Jews who immigrated in the 19th century from Curaçao.