José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado

Rafael Luis José de Gallegos y Alvarado

Rafael Luis José de Gallegos y Alvarado (born October 31, 1784 in Cartago , Costa Rica , † August 14, 1850 in San José (Costa Rica) , Costa Rica) was a head of state of Costa Rica.

Life

His parents were Lucía Guadalupe de Alvarado Guevara and Felipe Gallegos y Trigo. On his mother's side he had José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado as a half-brother.

In his first marriage he married Teresa Ramó y Palacios († ~ 1820), the daughter of Concepción Palacios y Santamaría and Francois Rameau Mercadel. From this marriage the children José Felipe and José de Jesús Gallegos y Ramó were born. The adopted daughter Josefa Victoria died at a young age.

On November 3, 1822, he married his second time, namely María Ignacia Sáenz y Ulloa (1800–1873), the daughter of María Cayetana Ulloa y Guzmán-Portocarrero and Manuel Sáenz y Alvarado. The children from this marriage are Guadalupe (she married Mariano Montealegre Fernández), Felícitas, Josefa Victoriana (she married Francisco Montealegre Fernández), Manuela, Rafael Gallegos Sáenz, Ignacia, Juan de Dios and Teresa Bernardina de Jesús Gallegos y Sáenz.

Entrepreneurial activities

He was a latifundia owner of extensive estates on which sugar cane and coffee were grown; he was also a trader, co-owner of the Monte del Aguacate mines . and owner of large fortunes that he had made from growing sugar cane in Tres Ríos and coffee.

President of the Junta Gubernativa

In his professional life he was a teacher at a school in San José. In 1821 he became the first mayor of San José.

In January 1822 he became a member of the Junta Superior Gubernativa de Costa Rica and from October 17, 1822 to January 1, 1823, he was this government body. On February 1, January 1, 1823, a new Junta Gubernativa took power. Her half-brother, José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado, sat before her.

In 1824 he was nominated by conservative groups as a candidate for deputy president, but was narrowly beaten by Juan Mora Fernández.

In 1825 he was elected as deputy president for a term from 1825 to 1829, and in 1829 he was elected to that office for another four years. During his tenure as Vice President, he chaired the Consejo Representativo del Estado and was executive president on a number of occasions.

Head of state

In the presidential election in 1833 he received one vote more than the second candidate. Since none of the candidates had achieved an absolute majority, he was elected president by parliament. His deputy was Manuel Fernández Chacón. He ruled against an opposition with a sarcastic press. Vicente Castro Ramírez published the magazine La Tertulia . Parliament decided with the Ley de la Ambulancia to move the seat of government every four years to another of the four larger cities of Costa Rica. He resigned from office in March 1833. Parliament accepted his resignation on March 4, 1834 and revoked his election as president on March 6, 1834.

After the presidency

In 1842 he was appointed President of the Supreme Court, but he turned down the office. In 1844 he was elected to parliament, which he presided over. On May 1, 1845, he was appointed head of state on behalf of Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla. The putschists of June 7, 1846 asked for his help in parliament, which he refused.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jorge Francisco Sáenz Carbonell, Los años de la ambulancia, 1834-1838: Gallegos y la capital ambulante , EUNED, 1989, 204 p., P. 22
2. ↑ Presidentes de la Asamblea Legislativa ( Memento of March 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Footnotes

1. ^ Es : Mariano Montealegre Fernández
2. ^ Es : Francisco Montealegre Fernández
3. ^ Es : Vicepresidentes de Costa Rica

predecessor	Office	successor
Rafael Barroeta y Castilla Juan Mora Fernández Rafael Moya	Presidents of Costa Rica October 17, 1822 - January 1, 1823 March 9, 1833 - 1834 May 1, 1845 - June 9, 1846	José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado Juán José Lara José Maria Alfaro Zamora