Tomás Villalba

Tomás Villalba

Tomás Villalba Albín (born December 9, 1805 in Dolores , † July 12, 1886 Montevideo ) was a Uruguayan politician .

Villalba, who belonged to the Partido Nacional , was a follower of Manuel Oribe from his youth . So he accompanied him in the government "del Cerrito" and was appointed military commander of Soriano . In the following period he held both the political leadership and the position of police chief in the Department of Colonia , then in Soriano and finally in Cerro Largo . Between 1855 and 1858 he was in the financial administration Contador General de la Nación (Treasurer of the nation?). During the reign of Bernardo Prudencio Berro , he held the position of finance minister from 1860 to 1861. As a senator he sat in the 9th legislative period from April 24, 1863 for the Department Canelones in the Cámara de Senadores . There he initially took over the office of the first Senate Vice-President in 1864, only to take over the Senate presidency as the successor to Atanasio Cruz Aguirre in the following year . He then replaced the latter on February 16, 1865 in the state leadership and thus acted as interim president of Uruguay . A few days later, on February 20, 1865, he was replaced in this position by Venancio Flores .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 on www.parlamento.gub.uy ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.8 MB) 
2. ^ Data on worldstatesmen.org
3. ↑ Uruguay: Heads of State: 1830-1919 on archontology.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Atanasio Cruz Aguirre	President of Uruguay February 16, 1865-20. February 1865	Venancio Flores