José María Antonio de la Cruz Marquez

José María Antonio de la Cruz Márquez short José Antonio Márquez (born March 3, 1802 in Tegucigalpa , † March 26, 1832 in Comayagua ) was from March 12, 1831 to March 22, 1832 Supremo Director of the province of Honduras within the Central American Confederation . A civil war between federalists and separatists, together with an illness of Márquez, ultimately limited the ability of his government to act.

Life

His mother was María Antonia Márquez. His brother was the future priest Francisco Antonio Marquez. He started school in Texiguat ( Departamento El Paraíso ) and completed his training in Tegucigalpa at the local Latin and military academies.

The young officer rose quickly from lieutenant to colonel during the crisis and became a member of parliament in 1825. He took part in various battles, from which he emerged as a "hero"; for example on July 6, 1828 at the battle for the Hacienda El Gualcho . He was appointed as a pension administrator in Tegucigalpa in 1829, and in the same year was charged with pacifying the indigenous people of Olancho during the Diego Vigil Cocaña government . He also put down a mine rebellion in Opoteca. Also in 1829 he became Minister of José Francisco Morazán Quezada during his first war against the province of El Salvador.

The parliament of Honduras appointed General Joaquín Rivera Bragas to Jefe Supremo in 1831 , but he did not accept the office. Thereupon the parliament declared on March 12, 1831 General Marquez for elected. His brother, the priest Francisco Antonio Márquez, the provisional (ecclesiastical administrator) of the Comayagua department (the then capital of Honduras), then resigned from his office due to incompatibility.

Term of office as head of government

On April 1, 1831, Marquez convened a constituent assembly to amend the 1825 constitution. The constituent assembly was chaired by José Trinidad Reyes, but the civil war prevented a new constitution from being passed. Marquez guaranteed freedom of expression and upheld the constitution, which he would have liked to change. During his reign the satirical and serious newspaper El Rayo was published .

Marquez introduced the colonial tax on tobacco, a seal tax, the alcabala (a colonial sales tax ), a powder tax and an alcohol tax . He lifted the ban on the export of gold and silver, organized a military academy in Tegucigalpa, which was directed by the Colombian Colonel Narcizo Benitez, a veteran of the Battle of Espíritu Santo . Graduates from this academy included Francisco Ferrera , José Santos Guardiola Bustillo, and Florencio Xatruch Villagra .

Conservative, royalist forces under the name "Los Serviles" pursued the re-connection to the Spanish crown. On November 21, 1831, mercenary troops Omoa , led by the insurgent military Ramón Guzmán and Vicente Domínguez, occupied the port of Trujillo and the capital Comayagua. This marked the beginning of the Civil War, which went badly for the royalists. Márquez 'government managed to regain control of the entire territory, the last and decisive battle was that of Jaitique on March 26, 1832. On that day, however, Márquez died of a severe fever. Already on March 22, 1832, four days before his approaching death, he had handed over the government office to José Francisco Milla Guevara in an appeal to the people of Honduras . After their defeat, the rebels fled abroad, for example to British Honduras ( Belize ) or the Miskito coast .

Márquez's wife was María Manuela Díaz; from the marriage the daughter Teresa Marquez emerged, who married the general and politician Joaquín Rivera Bragas in 1833. The government of Carlos Céleo Arias López granted her a pension in October 1872, referring to the special achievement of her father.

Web links

Honduras Educacional: Jose Antonio Marquez (biography) ( Memento of September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
José Santos Díaz del Valle	Heads of State of the Province of Honduras March 12, 1831-22. March 1832	José Francisco Milla Guevara