Duncan Stewart (politician, 1833)

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Duncan Stewart

Duncan Antonio Stewart Agell (born January 2, 1833 in Buenos Aires , † 1923 ) was a Uruguayan politician.

Duncan Stewart was born in Buenos Aires in 1833 as the son of Duncan Stewart from Scotland and the Uruguayan Dorotea Agell. He belonged to the Partido Colorado . In January 1869, he was Minister of Finance in the Lorenzo Batlle y Grau government . In 1888 he was director of the Banco Nacional . On February 9, 1889, he became a member of the Senate for the Durazno Department and in the following year he assumed the office of President of the Senate, which he held again in 1894. From March 2, 1894 to March 21, 1894 he was interim president of Uruguay. His successor as president was Juan Idiarte Borda . On January 30, 1895, he resigned from the Senate to hold a deputy mandate as representative of the Montevideo Department in the current 18th legislative period from February 9 of this year to February 14, 1897 . This was followed in this period of time in 1896 as President of the Chamber in the Cámara de Representantes . In 1897 he took over the position of First Vice President of the Cámara de Senadores , in which he had returned on January 10, 1897 as elected Senator for the Department of Maldonado and in which he remained until January 10 of the following year. In 1897 and 1898 he held the presidency of the Comision Permanente del Poder Legislativo .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Efemérides Uruguayas, Volume 3" by Arturo Scarone
  2. ^ "Uruguay, un destino incierto", p.189 by Jorge Otero Menéndez
  3. ^ "Uruguay: Cronología Histórica Anotada, Volume 6", p.56 by Walter Rela
  4. ↑ "Uruguay: Cronología Histórica Anotada, Volume 6", p.56 by Walter Rela - With regard to a Senate presidency in 1898, this source contradicts the official data of the Uruguayan parliament and is therefore obviously wrong.
  5. ↑ List of Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 on www.parlamento.gub.uy ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.8 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.gub.uy
predecessor Office successor
Julio Herrera y Obes President of Uruguay
March 2, 1894–21. March 1894 		Juan Idiarte Borda
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart Agell, Duncan Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of Uruguay
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH 1923