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Valentín Alsina
1857 |
Born in 1802 and died on September 6th, 1869.An Argentine jurist and politician;
Director of the Public Library of Buenos Aires; Teacher of Public Law; consecutively
appointed in different positions in the judiciary and wrote the Rural Code; under
Urquiza’s Government he was Minister of Government; Governor; Judge of the Supreme
Court; President of the Higher Court; Member of the Provincial Constituent Convention;
Senator of the Province ( in three times); Minister of Government and Foreign Affairs;
President of the Senate of this Province (1857); Constitutional Governor; Member
of the National Constituent Convention; Member of Governmental Advisory Council;
National Senator; Pro Tempore President of National Senate. He was at the forefront
as a civil leader in the revolution of September 11th against Urquiza; after that
he was elected Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, but a military uprising
made him resign a few months later. In 1857, he was elected Governor and renewed
hostilities against Urquiza; the latter defeated the ‘porteña’ army in Cepeda Battle;
this led him to resign (1859).
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Manuel José de la Cruz Ocampo
1860 – 1862, 1863-1864 |
1810-1895; Member of the Classification Committee of the National Debt; President
of the Administration Board of Currency; Senator of this Province (three times);
Member of Governmental Advisory Council; Director of the Province Bank (in two terms);
President of the Senate of this Province (from May 8thm 1869 to April 4th, 1862,
and from April 29th1863 to April 28th1864); First Vice President; Advisor in the
Municipality of Buenos Aires.
His father, Manuel José de Ocampo, was a Regent in the ‘Cabildo’ of Buenos Aires
in 1810; his mother was Úrsula González y Arias de Cabrera; He was married to Clara
Lozano Samayoa; and his brother-in-law, Vicente Fidel López, was a politician and
historian in those days.
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