Pedro José Escalón

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Pedro José Escalón

Pedro José Escalón (born March 25, 1847 in Santa Ana (El Salvador) ; † September 6, 1923 ibid) was from March 1, 1903-28. February 1907 President of El Salvador .

Life

The Escalón family is part of the Agujero de oro , they are cafetaleros in the Santa Ana department . Pedro José Escalón's brother was General Potenciano Escalón, whose widow María Gloria de la Concepción Moisant, Concha Viuda de Escalón was the owner of the land that today forms the Colonia Escalón with the Paseo General Escalón in San Salvador.

1865 married Pedro José Escalón, Elena Rodríguez (* 1847 † December 3, 1921) and had three children: Dolores, Federico and Pedro.

Tomás Regalado assessed him as easily manipulable and made him his successor as president. Tomás Regolado had already waged war against Guatemala in 1899 and supported opponents of the regime of Manuel José Estrada Cabrera in Guatemala. From June 9, 1906, the conflict between Guatemala and El Salvador was armed. Troops from El Salvador invaded Guatemala under the command of Tomás Regolado. On June 11, 1906, Tomás Regolado was killed. On June 17, 1906, the withdrawal of troops from El Salvador was completed. In October 1906 Escalón signed a peace and trade treaty for Guatemala with Estrada Cabrera.

During his reign, the government of El Salvador settled the claims from an arbitration award to Puerto El Triunfo under the name Asunto Burrell , which amounted to about half a million gold pesos.

During his reign, the Escuela de Comercio y Hacienda, which today belongs to the Instituto Nacional de Central , was founded in December 1906 .

During his reign the reconstruction of the Palacio Nacional and the construction of the Teatro Nacional de San Salvador began, and the telegraph service was expanded. There were electric street lights in San Salvador.

At the end of 1906, General Potenciano Escalón tried to overthrow his brother Pedro José Escalón with the support of José Santos Zelaya . The conspirator was captured in 1907 at the Hacienda Santa Emilia , the arms dealer Moisant in Sonsonate and brought to the Penitenciaria Central of San Salvador.

He spent his old age on his latifundia in Santa Ana.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New York Times, August 19, 1910, In 1907 George and Alfred Moissant were arrested having secreted the revolutionary General, Escalon
  2. ^ Thomas David Schoonover, The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System , Duke University Press, 1991, 253 pages
predecessor Office successor
Tomás Regalado President of El Salvador
March 1, 1903-28. February 1907 		Fernando Figueroa
personal data
SURNAME Escalón, Pedro José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of El Salvador
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana (El Salvador)
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1923
Place of death Santa Ana (El Salvador)