Rafael Francisco Osejo

Rafael Francisco Osejo (* 1790 in Subtiava ; † 1848 in Ciudad de Comayagua , Honduras ) was a Nicaraguan humanities scholar , professor and from March 20 to 28, 1823 President of Costa Rica .

Life

His mother was Escamilla Osejo. With a scholarship he studied humanities at the Colegio Tridentino San Ramón , León (Nicaragua) , which was secularized in 1830 as the Seminario Conciliar de San Ramón and later the Universidad de San Ramón de León . In 1814 he moved to San José. Bishop Nicolás García Jerez hired him as a lecturer in humanities at the Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomás . Rafael Francisco Osejo was the rector of this institute from 1814 to February 1815. In 1817 he settled in Cartago, where he also taught humanities. His students included Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla and Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Rosales . The Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomás in San José awarded him in 1829 the title of Bachelor of Civil Law . In July 1824 the institute awarded him the title of Master of Fine Arts and in 1830 he became professor of philosophy at this institute.

Osejo remained unmarried. He had a son in Cartago who died as a teenager .

In the Spanish colonial administration

In 1819 he was a member of the Tribunal Consular . In 1820 he was a lawyer in the Ujarrás Cabildo . In 1821 he officiated as a lawyer in the Cabildo of Cartago and a member of the medical committee. In 1820 he had a dispute with the Jefe Político Subalterno of Costa Rica, Juan Manuel de Cañas-Trujillo, who did not want Rafael Francisco Osejo to discuss the Constitution of Cádiz in Cartago.

Offices in the period of independence

He was a republican and opposed to the annexation by the Mexican empire of Agustín de Itúrbide . The Ujarrás Cabildo appointed him a delegate in the Junta de Legados de los Pueblos , a parliament that met in November 1821 under the chairmanship of Nicolás Carrillo y Aguirre. His appointment was revoked and the Junta de Legados de los Pueblos sent delegates to the Congreso Constituyente de México in 1821 .

In 1822 he devoted himself to the exploitation of a gold mine in the Montes de Aguacate in Alajuela .

In February 1823 he vehemently opposed the annexation to Mexico and for an annexation of Costa Rica to Colombia. He became a delegate in a constituent assembly of the province of Costa Rica, which met in Cartago on March 3, 1823 and on March 8, 1823 decided to separate from the Mexican Empire. He was secretary in this Parliament.

President of the Diputación de Costa Rica

On March 14, 1823 he was elected by the constituent assembly to a three-member government junta called Diputación de Costa Rica . The Diputación de Costa Rica consisted of a chairman and two successors. This junta replaced the Junta Superior Gubernativa , which was chaired by José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado . The other members of the Diputación de Costa Rica were Manuel María de Peralta y López del Corral and Hermenegildo de Bonilla Morales. Alejandro García-Escalante Nava and Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia were appointed as deputies. The Diputacion took over the government on March 20, 1823. At the first meeting, Rafael Francisco Osejo was appointed Chairman from the Diputacion . On March 29, 1823, a military coup led by the monarchist Caudillo Joaquín de Oreamuno y Muñoz de la Trinidad ended his government. Osejo was able to escape the monarchists' stalking to San José.

After the presidency

After the collapse of the monarchist government, Rafael Francisco Osejo returned in July 1823 and took up his mandate on the Constituent Assembly. In August 1823 his mandate as a delegate was revoked and in September 1823 he was imprisoned on suspicion that the members of the Diputación had conspired with the monarchist putschists. On September 28, 1823, a tribunal dealing with this ruled that Osejos was innocent.

In December 1825, he was elected Justice to the Supreme Court of Costa Rica, but he did not accept the election. From the beginning of 1828 he was the sole acting manager of San José. From 1828 to 1830 he was a member of parliament for Ujarrás. He supported the Ley Aprílea , a legislative initiative that separated Costa Rica from the Central American Confederation from 1829 to 1831 .

From 1831 to 1833 he was a member of the Alajuela Department and for a few months he was President of Parliament. He supported the idea of rotating locations for the seat of government and parliament, which was realized in 1834 with the controversial Ley de la Ambulancia .

In 1833 he enforced the first compulsory education law for primary schools.

In August 1833 he was appointed auditor and in October 1833 he was appointed adjunct judge at the Supreme Court of Costa Rica. In December 1833 he became a member of the Parliament of the Central American Confederation for the Departamento Oriental de Costa Rica. In May 1834 this mandate was declared invalid. From 1835 to 1836 he was a member of parliament for Nueva Segovia and from 1836 to 1837 he was a member of parliament for León (Nicaragua) . In 1838 he was Jefe Político of San Salvador and in 1847 commissioner of Nicaragua in Honduras.

literature

• Short treatises on arithmetic, geography of Costa Rica, pamphlets for the Ley Aprílea .
• Chester Zelaya Goodman, Rafael Francisco Osejo , Costa Rica 1971
• Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Costa Rica abridged version 1973

Web links

1. ^ Es : Nicolás García Jerez
2. ↑ es: Ujarrás

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El Nuevo Diario , 08 de Marzo de 2006, El bachiller Osejo: figura clave en la historia de Costa Rica ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 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. 
2. ↑ Verity Smith, Encyclopedia of Latin American literature , Taylor & Francis, 1997, 926 pp. 229

predecessor	Office	successor
José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado	Presidents of Costa Rica 20.-28. March 1823	Joaquín de Oreamuno y Muñoz de la Trinidad