Juan Manuel Rodríguez (politician)

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Juan Manuel Rodríguez (born December 31, 1771 in San Salvador , † 1847 in Cojutepeque ) was a Salvadoran politician. From April 22 to October 1, 1824 he held the office of "Jefe Supremo" of the state of El Salvador in the Central American Confederation .

Life

His parents were Josefa Rodríguez and Pedro Delgado. Juan Manuel Rodríguez was a member of the Partido Liberal , which was then also called Fiebre .

He was "Prócer", a member of the early, initially failed independence movement in New Spain from Spain in 1811 and 1814. This group included José Matías Delgado y de León , Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga , Manuel and Vicente Aguilar.

He was secretary of a junta in November 1811, which acted as the first government of the independent province of El Salvador. In 1814 he was mayor of San Salvador. He was sentenced to six years in prison by the colonial power, was imprisoned and was pardoned in 1819. In November 1821 he was appointed spokesman for the government junta of the province of San Salvador (then synonymous with El Salvador). In January 1822 he signed the separate decree with which San Salvador broke away from the former Vice-Captain of Guatemala. and tried to prevent the annexation by the Mexican Empire. With other members of the provincial parliament he was sent to Washington to negotiate the possibility of an annexation of El Salvador to the USA, the negotiations which stalled until the Mexican empire fell apart.

The constituent assembly appointed him head of state on April 22, 1824. Juan Manuel Rodríguez decreed the following day that everyone in the republic was free and that anyone who came into the country could not be a slave. The state government also decreed the election of the Bishop of San Salvador and invested José Matías Delgado y de León.

In May 1824, the Constituent Assembly published a constitution.

In June 1824 he opened El Salvador's first government printing plant. The first newspaper he christened El Portador de la BuenaNueva a weekly newspaper for politics and commerce it appeared on July 31, 1824.

He died of cholera at his Hacienda San Jerónimo near Cojutepeque.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Juan Manuel Rodríguez", in: La Prensa Grafica , August 12, 2003 ( Memento of November 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Mariano Prado Baca Supremo Director of the Province of El Salvador
April 22–1. October 1824 		Mariano Prado Baca
personal data
SURNAME Rodríguez, Juan Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran politician; Jefe Supremo 1824
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH San Salvador
DATE OF DEATH 1847
Place of death Cojutepeque