Manuel Pardo

Manuel Pardo

Manuel Justo Pardo y Lavalle (born August 9, 1834 in Lima ; † November 16, 1878 ibid) was a Peruvian politician who, among other things, was mayor of Lima between 1869 and 1870 , President of Peru from 1872 to 1876 and President of the Senate in 1878 was.

Life

Manuel Justo Pardo y Lavalle, son of the conservative writer, politician and Foreign Minister Felipe Pardo y Aliago , attended schools in Chile as well as the Primer Colegio Nacional Benemérito de la República Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe and the Real Convictorio de San Carlos in Lima and then started a Studied at the University of Barcelona and the University of Paris . After returning to Peru in 1853, he worked as a businessman and journalist and published his nationalist-moderate positivist views in the newspaper Revista de Lima . In 1864 he was sent to Europe by President Juan Antonio Pezet to start loan negotiations and, on his return, joined the uprising of Mariano Ignacio Prado in Huancayo . President Prado appointed him Minister of Finance (Secretario de Hacienda) on November 28, 1865 and held this office until November 28, 1866. During this time, the Battle of Callao took place on May 2, 1866 in the Spanish-South American War . In 1868 he became director of the Sociedad de Beneficencia Pública and in 1869 as successor to José María de la Puente y Oyague mayor of the city of Lima . He held this office until 1870 and was then replaced by Nemecio Orbegoso . In 1871 he founded the Partido Civil .

On August 2, 1872, Pardo succeeded Mariano Herencia Zevallos and became the first civilian as President of Peru . Previously, the population had put down a military uprising against him. After four years in office, Mariano Ignacio Prado, supported by his Partido Civil, became his successor as President on August 2, 1876. During his presidency, the Faculty of Public Administration of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and colleges of engineering, agriculture, arts and crafts were established. In 1872 the German School Lima (Colegio Peruano Alemán) was founded . He campaigned for the elimination of the supremacy of the Church and the army and the removal of internal taxes and duties that were controlled by provincial governments. When the output and quality of guano , the basis of the Peruvian economy, and a banking crisis worsened the economic situation, he was unable to take out new loans. The

After living in Chile from 1876 to 1878 , he was elected a member of the Senate for the Junín Province on his return in 1878 . At the same time he replaced Francisco Rosas Balcázar as President of the Senate on July 28, 1878 . He held this office until November 16, 1878 when he was shot by a sergeant from the parliamentary guard while entering the Senate building. His successor as President of the Senate was then José Antonio García y García .

From his marriage to Mariana Barreda y Osma ten children were born. His son José Pardo y Barreda also held the office of President from 1904 to 1908 and from 1915 to 1919. Other sons were the diplomat Felipe Pardo y Barreda , who was envoy to the USA between 1907 and 1911 , and the politician Juan Pardo y Barreda , who served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1906 to 1909 and again between 1917 and 1919 . After his death he was buried at the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro in Lima.

Web links

• Manuel Pardo (prabook.com)
• Manuel Pardo (biografiasyvidas.com)
• Manuel Pardo (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peru: Presidents (rulers.org)