José Justo Milla Pineda

José Justo Milla Pineda (* 1794 in Gracias , Lempira Department , Honduras , † 1838 in Mexico City ) was Supremo Director of the Nicaragua Province within the Central American Confederation from February 11, 1824 to May 4, 1824, as well as a Honduran general and politician.

Life

Milla was born the son of José Antonio de la Milla and Feliciana Pineda Arriaga in the East Honduran city of Gracias. He was married to Mercedes Vidaurre Molina, with whom he had several children, including the future writer José Milla y Vidaurre .

Milla went through a military career and completed his officer training in Guatemala City . At the time of Central America's declaration of independence from Spain in 1821, he held the rank of Sergeant Major of the Cavalry .

He joined the conservative party and advocated the attachment of Central America to the Mexican Empire, operated by Gabino Gaínza . After Central America became independent from Mexico in 1823 and the provinces of Comayagua and Tegucigalpa were united to form the province of Honduras (as a state of the Central American Confederation ), Milla was elected deputy head of state of the province on September 16, 1824.

When the President of the Confederation, Manuel José Arce , dissolved the Federation Parliament in October 1826 in view of the violent criticism of his own ( liberal ) party's deputies of his increasingly conservative government policy - contrary to the constitution - there were massive public protests, which the Liberal head of state of Honduras Dionisio de Herrera joined. Thereupon Milla resigned on January 7, 1827 as deputy head of state. Instead, he took command of a 200-man unit of the Federation troops, with which he marched from Guatemala to Honduras and overthrew Herrera on May 10, 1827. Until a successor was elected on September 13, 1827, Milla took over the post of head of state provisionally. On November 11 of the same year, however, he was defeated by a force under the command of Francisco Morazán and withdrew to Guatemala. There he was captured after the overthrow of the Federation President Arce by Morazán on May 26, 1829 and exiled from Central America by order of August 22 of the same year. He went to Mexico where he spent the last years of his life and died at the age of only 44.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Supremo Director of the Province of Nicaragua February 11, 1824–4. May 1824	Manuel Arzú

predecessor	Office	successor
Dionisio de Herrera y Díaz del Valle	Supremo Director of the Province of Honduras May 10, 1827-13. September 1827	Cleto Bendaña