[1] Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).
Father: Pedro María Jorge Arias
Mother: Dilia Limbert Blanco
Wife: Asela Altagracia Mera Checo (m. 1957, d. 2007)
Daughter: Dilia Leticia
Son: Orlando Jorge Mera (secretary-general, Dominican Revolutionary Party)
Law School: LLD, Universidad de Santo Domingo (1949)
Law School: PhD International Law, Universidad Central de Madrid
Professor: Civil and Criminal Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (1970-76)
Jorge Mera & Villegas Partner
President of the Dominican Republic (1982-86)
Dominican Republic Official Senator (1978-82)
Dominican Republic Official Attorney General (1965)
Dominican Bar Association President (1973)
Dominican Bar Association President (1975)
Corruption misuse of government funds, convicted 1991, overturned 2001
Coma Dec-2010