Eugenio Aguilar

Doctor
Eugenio Aguilar
Doctor Eugenio Aguilar
4th President of El Salvador
	In office; 21 February 1846 – 1 February 1848
Vice President	José Campo y Pomar
Preceded by	Fermín Palacios (acting)
Succeeded by	Tomás Medina (acting)
9th President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
	In office; 3 February 1849 – 22 March 1849
Preceded by	José María Zelaya Pérez
Succeeded by	Agustín Morales
Personal details
Born	Eugenio Aguilar González; 15 November 1804; Santiago Nonualco, New Spain
Died	23 April 1879 (aged 74); San Salvador, El Salvador
Nationality	Salvadoran
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Dolores Padilla y Castillo (m. 1838)
Occupation	Politician, diplomat, priest

Eugenio Aguilar González (15 November 1804 – 23 April 1879) was a Salvadoran politician who served as president of El Salvador from 1846 to 1848. He also served as the mayor of San Salvador in 1839 and 1864, and the president of the Legislative Assembly in 1849.

Early life

Eugenio Aguilar González was born on 15 November 1804 in Santiago Nonualco, then a part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. His father was José Antonio Aguilar and his mother was Juana de González y Batres. Aguilar's father died before his birth.^[1] He was orphaned in 1812 and moved to San Salvador, the capital of the Intendancy of San Salvador, where he came under the care of three of his paternal uncles, all of whom were priests. In 1818, he traveled to Guatemala City to study philosophy at the Tridentine College and Seminary of Our Lady of the Assumption [es]. IN 1838, he completed his doctorate of medicine at the Pontifical University. Aguilar married Dolores Padilla y Castillo on 8 April 1838.^[2]

Political career

In 1839, Aguilar served as the mayor of San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador.^[1] From 1840 to 1844, he was the surgeon major of the Salvadoran Army and the San Salvador military hospital.^[2] In 1844, he became the rector of the University of El Salvador.^[1] He also served as a Salvadoran diplomat to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on several occassions during the 1840s and 1850s.^[2]

On 16 February 1846, Aguilar was elected as president of El Salvador by the Legislative Assembly; he won unopposed.^[3] He assumed office on 21 February, succeeding acting President Fermín Palacios.^[1]

During a coup attempt by the Salvadoran military supported by San Salvador archbishop Jorge de Viteri y Ungo, Aguilar ceded presidential powers to Palacios on 12 July. Aguilar regained his presidential powers in a counter coup on 21 July with the support of the municipal government of San Salvador. Viteri fled the country to Honduras and Aguilar formally expelled Viteri from the country on 29 July, describing him as a traitor; Viteri accused Aguilar of being irreligious^[1]^[3]

Aguilar left office on 1 February 1848 and ceded power to senator Tomás Medina who served in an acting capacity until Doroteo Vasconcelos was inaugurated on 7 February.^[3] Aguilar served as the president of the Legislative Assembly from 3 February 1849 to 22 March 1849. He served in several ministerial positions, including minister of the interior and external relations (1851); minister of dispatch (1856–1857); and minister of finance and war (1856 and 1861–1863). Although serving as President Gerardo Barrios' minister of finance and war, Aguilar fled El Salvador in 1863 fearing repression from Barrios' government and supported Barrios' overthrow by Francisco Dueñas later that year. Aguilar served a second term as mayor of San Salvador in 1864.^[2]

Later life and death

Aguilar retired from politics in 1867 and attended the Tridentine College and Seminary of Santa Tecla to become a priest. He was ordained by Nicaraguan bishop Manuel de Ulloa on 18 December 1870. He gave his first sermon as a priest on 10 January 1871. He became a professor medicine in 1876.^[2]

Aguilar died in San Salvador on 23 April 1879.^[1] He was buried at the Iglesia del Rosario [es].^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Presidentes de El Salvador – Doctor Eugenio Aguilar" [Presidents of El Salvador – Doctor Eugenio Aguilar]. Casa Presidencial (in Spanish). Government of El Salvador. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Historia del Órgano Legislativo de la República de El Salvador 1824–2006: 1936–2006 [History of the Legislative Organ of the Republic of El Salvador 1824–2006: 1824–1870] (PDF) (in Spanish) (IV ed.). Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. 2006. pp. 100–101. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Elections and Events 1811–1849". University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

Political offices
Preceded by Fermín Palacios (acting)	President of El Salvador 1846–1848	Succeeded by Tomás Medina (acting)
Preceded by José María Zelaya Pérez	President of the Legislative Assembly 1849	Succeeded by Agustín Morales

[casapres-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Presidentes de El Salvador – Doctor Eugenio Aguilar" [Presidents of El Salvador – Doctor Eugenio Aguilar]. Casa Presidencial (in Spanish). Government of El Salvador. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

[TomoI-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Historia del Órgano Legislativo de la República de El Salvador 1824–2006: 1936–2006 [History of the Legislative Organ of the Republic of El Salvador 1824–2006: 1824–1870] (PDF) (in Spanish) (IV ed.). Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. 2006. pp. 100–101. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

[UCSD-3] "Elections and Events 1811–1849". University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

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^† – Acting or provisional president ^‡ – Military junta

v t e Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
1800s	Hoyos Cornejo Mencía V. Rodríguez Blanco Paiz Mencía Zelaya Aguilar A. Morales San Martín Bonilla Dueñas Hernández Gómez Cabañas Gallardo Quirós S. González Chacón Gallardo Zaldívar Gallardo Chacón Zaldívar Campo Vasconcelos Larreynaga Fallos Valle Castro G. López D. López Vides Moreno Guirola Alvarado Galindo Ruíz Valle Larreynaga Pacas Pineda Vaquero Arce Durán A. Castro Pinto Medina Arriola Fallos Interiano Romero Aráuz
1900s	Arriola R. García Aráuz Novoa Mejía Aráuz R. García Martínez Pinto Novoa Meléndez F. García Batres Falla Parker M. Castro D. González J. Rodríguez F. López F. Reyes Olano Villacorta R. Morales Cierra F. Reyes Rivas Galindo Peralta Carmona Esquivel Cordón Guerrero Guardado Guerra R. Rodríguez Echeverría D'Aubuisson Castillo Guevara Alvarenga Angulo Salguero Flores Duch
2000s	Zepeda Araujo Zepeda Orellana Zepeda S. Reyes Peña Mendoza Gallegos Quijano Ponce E. Castro