Mariano Egaña Fabres

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Mariano Egaña Fabres

Mariano Egaña Fabres (born June 15, 1793 in Santiago de Chile , † June 24, 1846 ibid) was a Chilean politician . In 1823 he served as a member of the government junta for three weeks as head of state of his country.

After finishing school, Mariano Egaña studied law at the Real Universidad de San Felipe and left the university in 1811 as a lawyer .

As in 1810, the Chilean independence movement against the Napoleonic - Spanish raised troops, the young Mariano supported this movement just like his father, Juan Egaña Risco . In 1813 he took over the office of Secretary of the Interior for the Chilean government junta until he was captured by the Spanish after the Battle of Rancagua and banished to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific with several other revolutionaries .

In 1817, when the Chileans were victorious in the Battle of Chacabuco , the exiles were able to return to the mainland, in the following years Mariano Egaña worked under the Director Supremo Bernardo O'Higgins in finance and in the city administration of Santiago de Chile. After the overthrow of O'Higgins, he temporarily held the post of interior and naval minister under Ramón Freire y Serrano . During the three-week rule of the Junta de Diputados in August 1823, Mariano Egaña represented the province of the capital Santiago and thus acted as a member of the collective government until Ramón Freire dismissed the junta he had appointed and ruled himself as sole Director Supremo .

The brilliant jurist Egaña was the head of some of the reforms of the Liberals under Freire, including the electoral reform and the opening of elementary schools and the abolition of corporal punishment . In 1824 he was sent to Europe as Plenipotentiary Envoy in order to achieve the recognition of Chilean independence by the European powers from Great Britain and to negotiate a debt relief for the public finances of some European creditors. In 1829 he returned to Chile.

There he found the liberal federalist government overthrown, the country in civil war from which the conservative centralists under José Joaquín Prieto Vial emerged victorious. Mariano Egaña was fortunate not to have been a pronounced federalist and also to have been out of the country at the time of the bitterest controversy, and so he was able to continue to hold important offices under the Conservative government.

So the new government called him to the supreme court of the country. From 1831 he represented his hometown Santiago in the Chilean Senate, and in 1833 he sat on the commission that drafted the constitution of 1833, on which he had great influence. In the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation War between the Chilean government and the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation , who also assisted Ramón Freire to regain power in his homeland, Mariano Egaña officially declared war as Chile’s diplomatic representative.

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SURNAME Egaña Fabres, Mariano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean President
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1846
Place of death Santiago de Chile