Eulogio Altamirano
Eulogio Altamirano | |
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| Minister of War and Navy | |
| In office September 11, 1875 – October 11, 1875 | |
| Preceded by | Mariano Sánchez |
| Succeeded by | Ignacio Zenteno |
| In office September 18, 1871 – September 28, 1871 | |
| Preceded by | José Ramón Lira |
| Succeeded by | Aníbal Pinto |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office September 18, 1871 – September 18, 1876 | |
| Preceded by | Belisario Prats |
| Succeeded by | José Victorino Lastarria |
| Minister of Justice and Public Instruction | |
| In office 1870–1871 | |
| Preceded by | Francisco Vargas |
| Succeeded by | Abdón Cifuentes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 1, 1835 San Felipe, Chile |
| Died | March 17, 1903[a] Santiago, Chile |
| Alma mater | Instituto Nacional |
Pedro Eulogio Altamirano Aracena (August 1, 1835 — March 17, 1903),[a] was a Chilean soldier, lawyer and politician.
Early life
[edit]He was the son of Manuel Altamirano and Pilar Aracena. He graduated as a lawyer in 1860. His studies were carried out at the Liceo de San Felipe; National Institute since 1852; Law courses at the National Institute and was sworn in as a lawyer on August 11, 1859.[citation needed]
Married to Adelina Talavera Appleby, with whom he was the father of General Luis Altamirano Talavera, who would carry out a military coup in 1925 against the presidency of Arturo Alessandri Palma and would present himself to Chile as de facto president. In his second marriage, he married Teresa Talavera Appleby, sister of the previous one; and then married for the third time, to Elena Talavera Appleby, sister of his previous wives; they had two children.[2]
Judicial career
[edit]In May 1865 he was appointed criminal judge of Valparaíso and in April 1869 criminal judge of Santiago. On August 2, 1870, he was appointed Minister of Justice, Worship and Public Instruction.[citation needed]
He was also appointed Minister of the Interior throughout the period of President Federico Errázuriz Zañartu (1871-1876).[citation needed]
Politician career
[edit]On September 18, 1871, he held the position of Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, replacing the Minister of War and Navy on the same date.[citation needed]
In 1873 he was elected deputy for Concepción and Talcahuano for the Conservative Party. He replaced the Minister of War and Navy (1875). He was appointed Mayor of Valparaíso and General Commander of the Navy (1876).[citation needed]
Senator of the Republic in 1876, for the province of Concepción, he held the position until 1882. In 1880 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary and secretary of the army in the campaign (War of the Pacific). He participated as a representative of Chile in the failed Arica Conference in October 1880 that was to end the war. He carried out the Lima campaign and found himself in the battles of Chorrillos and Miraflores (1881).[citation needed]
In March 1884 he was appointed the first Director of the State Railway Company, this position being created on January 4 of the same year. He held this position for one year.[3]
In 1885 he returned to the Senate, this time representing the province of Valparaíso, a position from which he left in 1894. He opposed the government of José Manuel Balmaceda in the Civil War of 1891. After the triumph of the revolution, he maintained his position as senator.
In 1894 he was appointed Mayor of Valparaíso. His actions were overshadowed by the murder of the liberal journalist and editor of the newspaper El Comercio de Valparaíso, Rodolfo León Lavín, an event that occurred while he was mayor of the province. He did not order that a process be instituted, nor did he make the communication to the Courts of Justice known in a public document. He did not take any punitive measures.[citation needed]
Altamirano had been appointed Defender of Minors in 1890, and, after the 1891 conflict, he continued his duties, remaining this position until his death on March 17, 1903.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b According to the Library of the National Congress of Chile, his year of death was 1905.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pedro Eulogio Altamirano Aracena. Reseñas biográficas parlamentarias". Biblioteca Nacional del Congreso de Chile / BCN.
- ^ Salazar Vergara, Gabriel; Altamirano Orrego, Carlos (2011). Conversaciones con Carlos Altamirano: Memorias Críticas (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Chile. ISBN 978-956-8410-51-3.
- ^ a b Núñez Olaechea, Samuel (1910). Los ferrocarriles del Estado (in Spanish). Imprenta i Encuadernación Chile.
Bibliography
[edit]- Castillo Infante, Fernando; Cortés, Lía; Fuentes, Jordi (1996). Diccionario Histórico y Biográfico de Chile (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Zig-Zag. pp. 29–30.