Pedro José Domingo de Guerra

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Pedro José Domingo de Guerra, oil painting around 1850

Pedro José Domingo de Guerra (born December 4, 1809 in La Paz , † September 10, 1879 in La Paz) was President of Bolivia in 1879 during the Saltpeter War with Chile on the one hand and the alliance of Bolivia and Peru on the other . His grandson, José Gutiérrez Guerra, was also the Bolivian President between 1917 and 1920.

biography

Pedro José Domingo de Guerra was the second oldest child of José de Guerra y Olazo and Maria Andrea de Bustamante y Peñaranda and had four siblings. He grew up in a family with roots in the Spanish colonial nobility and earned an excellent reputation as a statesman, lawyer and diplomat. In the late 1830s he served as consul in Paris and as ambassador to the United Kingdom . There he met Lady Maria Rynd, scion of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, whom he married in 1940. She was the stepdaughter of Admiral Thomas Brown (1778-1857), the niece of the physicist Francis Rynd and a female relative of the future Prime Minister Hanry Temple .

In the 1840s, as ambassador in Lima, he was given a task that was far too ambitious for the time, namely to create a basic work for a treaty with Brazil , Chile , Bolivia , Peru , Ecuador , and the Republic of New Granada could be merged into an "American Union" excluding the USA .

Pedro José and his wife Maria had two children, María Andréa (1840) and José Eduardo Guerra Rynd (1847).

He initially worked as a judge, then as President of the Supreme Court. As Bolivia's head of state, he headed the government at a time of dire need, when General Hilarión Daza had resigned his presidency to take over the leadership of the army during the Salpetre War. Pedro José Domingo de Guerra served as President from April 14th to September 10th and died in his office at the age of 69.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Casto Rojas (1917): "Bocetos" (Imprenta Velarde publishing house, La Paz), pages 239 and 407
  2. ↑ Manuel José Cortés (1861): “Ensayo sobre la historia de Bolivia” (Imprenta de Beeche publishing house, Sucre) page 181
personal data
SURNAME Domingo de Guerra, Pedro José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of Bolivia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1879
Place of death La Paz