Tomás Gomensoro

This article is about the politician. For the city, see Tomás Gomensoro (City) .

Tomás Gomensoro

Tomás José del Carmen Gomensoro Albín (born January 27, 1810 in Dolores , † April 12, 1900 in Montevideo ) was a Uruguayan politician .

Gomensoro, who belonged to the Partido Colorado , was first senator for the Salto Department in 1852 , before taking over both the political leadership of the department and the local duties as chief of police a year later. In 1868 he again exercised the office of senator and finally held the chairmanship of the Senate when he was under the command of March 1, 1872 during the civil war - the so-called Revolución de las lanzas (in German: "Revolution of the Spears") Blanco leader Timoteo Aparicio - took over the duties of the resigned Lorenzo Batlle to bring his term of office to an end. During his term of office on April 6, 1872, after previous negotiations about the end of the civil war, the so-called Paz de Abril (April Peace) fell. This included, among other things, an end to hostilities, including an amnesty for the Blanco revolutionaries.

Gomensoro was still active until February 15, 1873 as interim president of Uruguay .

He later held other offices and between 1888 and 1894 he took another seat in the Senate, but this time for Soriano .

With Tomás Gomensoro in Uruguay's northernmost department of Artigas , the former city of Zanja Honda was named after him eight years after his death .

Web links

• Biography on biografiasyvidas.com (spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data on info-regenten.de ( memento of the original from October 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Data on worldstatesmen.org
3. ↑ Uruguay: Heads of State: 1830-1919 on archontology.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Lorenzo Batlle	President of Uruguay March 1, 1872–15. February 1873	José Eugenio Ellauri