Antonio de Salinas Varona y Castañeda (1810–1874) was a wealthy Peruvian landowner and conservative

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Biography

He was born in Sayán. He became

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between 1866 and 1868, was a congressman from 1845 to 1851, and President of the Constitutional Congress in 1867. His father, Anselmo Manuel de Salinas Varona y Céspedes, born in

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(Spain), was a coronel of the Spanish Army and bought the estates of the Augustinians in the Huaura Valley of the Sayán District, 100 miles north of

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, including the important Andahuasi Estate. His mother, Petronila Maria Ignacia Matanzas de Castañeda de Oyor, was the daughter of Spanish nobles settled in

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. He married Paula de Cossío y Centurión and lived both in his Quipico Estate and his House in

. As his father he became coronel, but the

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. As an important landowner, he led the meeting of the main landowners of the country for an indemnity after slavery abolition and ruled, next to

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the commission who promoted the Rural Police Force and the immigration of Asians to replace former slaves as a workforce during

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government.

in 1866 and 1868, he organized the first Fire brigade during the Spanish attack to the Callao Harbour on May 2, 1866. He was a Deputy in the

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from 1845 to 1851. He died in

.Elias Ipinze J., Don Antonio Salinas y Castañeda, in Diario "El Imparcial" de Huacho, August 1 and 2, 1935, p.2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salinas Y Castaneda, Antonio 1810 births 1874 deaths Peruvian people of Spanish descent Mayors of Lima Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru