Juan José Paso

Juan José Paso

Juan José Paso (born October 6, 1757 in Buenos Aires , † September 10, 1833 ibid) was an Argentine politician .

Life

He studied at the University of Cordoba and earned a doctorate in theology in 1779 . In Buenos Aires he became professor of philosophy at the Colegio Real de San Carlos . In 1783 he went to Peru , where he stayed for twenty years and also studied law.

Paso returned to Argentina as a lawyer. There he joined the developing independence movement after the English invasion of 1806 and stood up for it as a gifted speaker. In 1810 he was a secretary in the formation of the first nine-member junta in Buenos Aires . He also tried in Montevideo to win the city for the independence movement without much success. Between 1811 and 1814 Paso was a member of two short-lived triumvirate governments and served on diplomatic missions in Chile, where he served as the defender of Admiral Guillermo Brown . Even if he officially no longer held a leading position after the end of the triumvirate, he was a central figure in the development of Argentina. He was a member of the Tucumán Congress in 1816 and was involved in drafting the constitution as secretary. As a monarchist, he was briefly arrested with like-minded MPs.

Paso became a member of the Buenos Aires Province Congress in 1822 and was later President of that assembly. In 1824 he was elected to the national congress and supported the election of Bernardino Rivadavia as the first president of the republic. Because of the violent conflicts between the provinces and the dispute between the supporters of a central state and those of a federal state, he largely withdrew from politics in 1826.

literature

• Beccar Varela, Adrian u. a .: Plazas y Calles de Buenos Aires: Significación Histórica de sus Nombres. 2 volumes. 1910.

Web link

• Grave and short biography of Juan José Paso (English)