Manuel de Sarratea
Manuel de Sarratea Altoguirre (born August 11, 1774 in Buenos Aires , † September 21, 1849 in Limoges ) was an Argentine diplomat and politician . From February to May 1820 he was Governor of Buenos Aires and thus de facto head of state of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata .
Manuel de Sarratea Altoguirre's ancestors come from the Basque Country . He was born in Buenos Aires, but completed his training in Madrid and then returned to his home country to work as a diplomat. After taking part in the May Revolution of 1810, he was appointed ambassador to Rio de Janeiro on the recommendation of Manuel Belgrano . From September 23, 1811 to October 8, 1812 he was a member of the First Triumvirate of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata , which until the mid-1830s included the area of what is now Argentina , Uruguay and Tarija .
After he had failed diplomatic mission in Spain in 1814, he went 1816 back to Buenos Aires and worked for some time as Minister of Foreign Affairs until he retired for health reasons and the because of his contacts with the political opposition in exile to Montevideo was sent .
In 1820 he returned to Buenos Aires as an envoy of the federal army and was there from February 18 to March 6 and again from March 11 to May 2 as provincial governor . As such, he had the power to represent the Río de la Plata in foreign affairs and was thus de facto head of state. Then he retired from politics again for a few years.
On August 31, 1825, Juan Gregorio de Las Heras , then acting governor of Buenos Aires, appointed Sarratea to the Encargado de Negocios de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata cerca de Gran Bretaña (Agent for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata) in the UK .
In 1826, Sarratea was again sent to London as a representative by Bernardino Rivadavia , the first president of Argentina , and under the later governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas , he was ambassador to Brazil and France .
Individual evidence
- ^ Basques in the Americas. Stephen T. Bass (2008) ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 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. ( English ; PDF; 2.6 MB)
Web links
- Argentina - Cronología ( Memento of March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarratea, Manuel de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sarratea Altoguirre, Manuel de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1849 |
| Place of death | Limoges |