Alejandro Chucarro

Alejandro Chucarro (* 1790 ; † 1884 ) was a Uruguayan politician .

Alejandro Chucarro, a member of the Cruzada Libertadora , was elected to the Primera Sala de Representantes de la Provincia (1825-1826), the province's first Chamber of Deputies . As a representative of the Department of Canelones, he was a member of the Asamblea Constituyente y Legislativa del Estado Oriental (1828-1830) , the first constituent assembly of Uruguay. As such, he was one of the signatories of the first constitution and was the last deceased of this assembly of representatives. Chucarro, who belonged to the Colorados , then also took a titular mandate in the Cámara de Representantes for canelones in the 1st and 2nd legislative periods from October 19, 1830 to February 14, 1834 and from February 17, 1834 to February 14, 1837 true. During this period he was first Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1832 and 1833, then in 1834 he held the office of First Vice President there. He was then from October 24, 1838 to November 11, 1838 Foreign Minister of Uruguay. During the second term of office of the President José Fructuoso Rivera , Chucarro was appointed General Director of the State Schools by decree of January 3, 1839 and entrusted with the creation of a basic education plan. On October 20, 1842, he resigned from this office without having achieved this goal as a result of the chaos of war. From 1839 to 1841 he held the post of finance minister.

From the 4th legislative period he belonged to the Cámara de Senadores , although he was first run as Second Vice President of the Senate in 1839. There he was first from October 26, 1841 to February 15, 1843 and from February 23, 1843 to February 9, 1846 Deputy Senator for the Department of San José . In the Gobierno de la Defensa he held the leadership role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the second time from February 6, 1847 to July 5, 1847. Beginning on March 6, 1854, he held a titular mandate in the Senate for the Tacuarembó Department in the 6th legislative period until July 15 of the same year . That year he was also President of the Senate. His third term as Foreign Minister followed from February 17, 1855 to May 30, 1855. Again for Tacuarembó he sat in the 10th legislative period from February 14, 1868 to February 10, 1870 in the Senate and in 1868 was also Second Senate Vice-President. In the following year he was president of this chamber. In the years 1871 and 1872 he was also the first Vice President of the Senate. However, he did not hold a titular mandate again until the 11th legislative period from February 14, 1873. This mandate, perceived as the representative of the Department of Paysandú , ended on January 18, 1875. As the elected representative of Maldonado , he was again in the 13th (February 14th, 1879 to February 6th, 1882) and 14th (February 9th, 1882 to the 15th June 1883) legislative period in the Senate. In 1880 and 1881 he was again President of the Senate.

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Alfredo Castellanos: Nomenclatura de Montevideo (Spanish), accessed on November 28, 2018 (PDF; 3.66 MB; p. 272)
2. ↑ ^{a b} List of Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.8 MB, 1214 pages, Spanish), accessed on January 25, 2014