Enrique Coronel Zegarra y Castro

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Enrique Coronel Zegarra y Castro (1900)

Enrique Coronel Zegarra y Castro (born May 6, 1851 in Piura ; † October 14, 1919 in Lima ) was a Peruvian politician of the Partido Demócrata , who was among other things Prime Minister of Peru for a short time in 1900 .

Life

Enrique Coronel Zegarra y Castro, son of the diplomat and politician Cipriano Coronel Zegarra , completed a degree in civil engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy and returned to Peru as a civil engineer after graduating in 1874. He worked for the Compañía de Fomento y Obras Públicas and worked on the construction of the Chimbote irrigation canal . After the start of the saltpeter war against Chile in 1879, he joined the volunteer battalion of his native city (Batallón Cívicos de Piura) and after the fall of Lima in 1881 went into exile to Panama , where he worked on the construction of the Panama Canal until 1887 . He then worked as a civil engineer in Ecuador on the construction of the railway line from Quito to Guayaquil . After his return to Peru in 1891, he was involved in the construction of the railway connection between Piura and Catacaos, the construction of irrigation machines and the port of Piura.

At the end of the 19th century, Coronel Zegarra began his political career in the Partido Demócrata , for which he was first elected a member of the Senate in the province of Piura in 1895 . On December 15, 1899, he became Minister for Development and Public Works (Ministro de Fomento y Obras Públicas) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Enrique de la Riva-Agüero y Looz, and held this ministerial office until August 7, 1900 August 1900 Enrique de la Riva-Agüero y Looz as Prime Minister of Peru (Presidente del Consejo de Ministros del Perú) , but after his resignation on October 1, 1900, was replaced by Domingo Almenara Butler on October 2, 1900 . At the same time he acted between August 30 and October 2, 1900 as Minister of the Interior and Police (Ministro de Gobierno y Policía) and temporarily still as Acting Minister for War and Navy (Ministro de Guerra y Marina) .

In 1901 he was re-elected as a member of the Senate and belonged to it until 1908. In May 1909 he was arrested as one of the leading leaders of the rebellion against President Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo . In 1915 he was re-elected a member of the Senate for the province of Piura, to which he belonged until his death on October 14, 1919.

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SURNAME Coronel Zegarra y Castro, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Piura
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1919
Place of death Lima