Juan Francisco Giró

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Juan Francisco Giró

Juan Francisco José Giró y Zufriategui (born June 3, 1791 in Montevideo , † May 8, 1863 ibid) was a Uruguayan politician .

Life

He was born in Montevideo to the Spanish immigrant José Giró and the Basque mother María Zufriategui . He received his training in his hometown as well as in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro . He also spent time in Spain and the United States , where he stayed between 1812 and 1815.

Giró belonged to the Partido Blanco and held the post of Foreign Minister of his home country from December 22, 1828 to August 27, 1829 and again from April 20, 1830 to October 24 of the same year as part of his political career . Two decades later, he sat from February 12, 1852 as Senator for the Department of Colonia in the Cámara de Senadores . He was then elected by the General Assembly (Asamblea General) on March 1, 1852 for the period from 1852 to 1856 as the successor to Bernardo Prudencio Berro as President of Uruguay . However, his presidency ended on September 24, 1853, when he was deposed as part of a military mutiny by part of the Colorado Partido and replaced by the government triumvirate of 1853 . During his tenure, he was the first President to take an official tour (from October to December 1852) through the interior of the country. From February 9, 1860 until his death, he was again active as a senator, this time for the Cerro Largo department. From 1860 to 1862 he held the office of Vice President of the Senate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. List of Foreign Ministers of Uruguay since 1828 ( Memento of February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. List of foreign ministers and their term of office ( Memento of October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ( Microsoft Excel ) Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad de la República
  3. ^ List of foreign ministers on the website of the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry
  4. a b List of the Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.45 MB) on parlamento.gub.uy  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.gub.uy
  5. ^ Data on worldstatesmen.org
predecessor Office successor
Bernardo Prudencio Berro President of Uruguay
March 1, 1852–24. September 1853
Government Triumvirate of 1853