| Birth Date: | July 5, 1818 |
| Death Date: | March 31, 1900 (aged 81) |
| Birth Place: | Baní, Colony of Santo Domingo |
| Allegiance: |  Dominican Republic Spain |
| Branch: | |
| Serviceyears: | 1844–1900 |
| Rank: | General |
| Battles: | Dominican War of Independence Dominican Restoration War Six Years' War |
Pedro Valverde Lara (July 5, 1818 – March 31, 1900) was a Dominican general and independence activist.
He was born in Baní on July 5, 1818. He was the son of Miguel Valverde and Marcela Lara. He grew up in the Capital.
He was at the Puerta del Conde on the night of February 27, 1844, in which the Dominican Republic was proclaimed. During the Dominican War of Independence, he reached the rank of colonel.
In 1861, when the annexation was proclaimed, he was enlisted in the reserves with the rank of general. Close defender of annexation, He served the Spanish as Governor of Santo Domingo and remained in office even after The Dominican Restoration War was in progress. The Spaniards rewarded the services of Valverde, and in October 1863, he was awarded the medal of Charles III. Valverde and Lara fell under suspicion of disaffection on the part of the Spanish and his confinement was arranged in a cell in the Ozama Fortress. General Pedro Santana interceded for him before the Captain General Carlos de Vargas and managed to have it delivered to him to take with him to the camp of Guanuma. At that point, Valverde and Lara deployed a silent and effective campaign between the soldiers, who began to defect from the anti-national side in ever-increasing quantity. The troops of San Cristóbal, in which Santana deposited a large trust, deserted en masse. He was finally discovered, arrested again and exiled on March 9, 1864, to the Spanish island of Santa Catalina, in Cádiz, where he arrived the following April.[1]
Before the end of the war, on his return, he approached President Pedro Antonio Pimentel and found Valverde who had been treated with disdainful coldness by President Pimentel. Angered and humiliated, he approached General José María Cabral and, together with Eusebio Manzueta and Marcos Evangelista Adón, encouraged the insurrection by which Cabral overthrew Pimentel and proclaimed a new government just 27 days after the Spanish left.[2]
Then Pedro Valverde Lara served as the Secretary of War and Navy. Under the dictatorship of the Six Years' period, he opposed the projects for years of annexationists of Buenaventura Báez and his clique and in 1868, at the very beginning of that regime, he returned to the jail. They sent him again to exile, from where he continued fighting against Báez. He died at the dawn of the twentieth century, on March 31, 1900. He was 81 years old.[3]