Juan Egaña Risco

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Juan Egaña Risco

Juan Egaña Risco (born October 31, 1768 in Lima ( Peru ), † April 20, 1836 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean politician of Peruvian origin. As a member of the "plenipotentiary congress" ( Congreso Plenitpotenciario ) he was head of state of Chile for a week in the spring of 1823 .

Juan Egaña Risco was born in Lima to a Chilean and a Peruvian. After school he studied at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos , where he graduated in law in 1791 and then moved to Chile. There he obtained a doctorate and the chair for Latin and rhetoric at the Real Universidad de San Felipe in 1802 . Soon he was one of Chile's leading intellectuals.

In 1810 he joined the Chilean independence movement. He was a member of the loyal Primera Junta de Gobierno and wrote the draft constitution that the loyalist Chilean independence fighters wanted to oppose the Napoleonic Spaniards . In 1811 he represented Melipilla in the first National Congress of Chile. The first provisional constitution of Chile from 1812 also bears the handwriting of Juan Egaña Risco, who was soon also elected senator. In the following year he stood up for the revolution and the final independence and expressed this on the one hand in the government junta of 1813, on the other hand as a committed journalist in the editorial office of the newspaper "Aurora de Chile" . When the fortunes of war had turned in favor of the Spaniards, after the defeat in the Battle of Rancagua he spent the years from 1814 to 1817 with numerous other revolutionaries in exile on the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific.

After the recognition of Chilean independence and his return, he was again appointed to several public offices and was one of the fathers of the constitution of 1823, which was written after the overthrow of Bernardo O'Higgins in January. Her mind was essentially conservative and based on the assumption that the law could make society morally better, a claim that would ultimately fail. In the spring of 1823 - after the interim government under Agustín Eyzaguirre from March 29, 1823 to April 5, 1823 - the "Plenipotentiary Congress" ruled, to which Juan Egaña Risco also belonged. On April 5, the liberal federalist Ramón Freire y Serrano forcibly took power, briefly interrupted by a three-week rule by the Junta de Diputados , which included Juan Egaña Risco's son, Mariano Egaña Fabres .

After the failure of "his" constitution, Juan Egaña represented Risco as a member of the Conservatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives. In 1827 he presided over the provincial assembly. He died at the age of 68 on April 20, 1836.

See also: History of Chile .

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SURNAME Egaña Risco, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean President
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1836
Place of death Santiago de Chile