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Jesús Muñoz Tébar
Jesús Muñoz Tébar ( Caracas, 17 January 1847 – 21 September, 1909) was a Venezuelan engineer, soldier and politician, Minister of Public Works on five occasions during the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco. He was the Minister of Finance from 1908 to 1909. Career He studied in the Vargas School of Caracas and graduated from the Military Academy of Mathematics in 1866 with the rank of Lieutenant of Engineers. A trusted official of Guzmán Blanco, three times president of Venezuela, he was called at the time the “constructor of the guzmancismo". Under his tenure as minister of Public Works, the government developed the construction of roads, bridges and railways in an attempt to improve the quality of life of Venezuela, then a purely rural nation. In 1881 he finished the Municipal Theatre of Caracas whose construction was initiated in 1876 by the French architect Esteban Ricard, who had left the country in 1879. He kept the Venezuelan government inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muñoz Tebar
Muñoz ( or ) is a Spanish-language surname—with a Portuguese-language variant ( Munhoz), from Basque "muinoa" (Hill), the surname got expanded during the Reconquista with massive settlements done by citizens from Navarre and Álava in New Castile and Andalusia. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 26.7% of all known bearers of the surname ''Muñoz'' were residents of Colombia (1:129), 21.1% of Spain (1:158), 20.3% of Chile (1:62), 6.7% of Argentina (1:458), 5.7% of Peru (1:397), 5.7% of Venezuela (1:379), 2.2% of Guatemala (1:533), 1.7% of Cuba (1:495), 1.6% of the Philippines (1:4,544), 1.6% of Nicaragua (1:272), 1.4% of Panama (1:206), 1.3% of Costa Rica (1:255) and 1.1% of the Dominican Republic (1:674). In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:158) in the following autonomous communities: * 1. Castilla-La Mancha (1:96) * 2. Andalusia (1:98) * 3. Region of Murcia (1:109) * 4. Extremadura (1:118) * 5. Ceuta (1:125) * 6. Community of Madrid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |