Francisco Dueñas Díaz (3 December 1810 – 4 March 1884) was a Salvadoran politician and member of the Conservative Party who served as
President of El Salvador
The president of El Salvador ( es, Presidente de El Salvador), officially known as the President of the Republic of El Salvador ( es, Presidente de la República de El Salvador), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador. He i ...
on four different occasions: 3 May 1851 to 30 January 1852, 1 February 1852 to 1 February 1854, 1 to 12 February 1856 in acting capacity, and 26 October 1863 to 15 April 1871.
He was "an ardent defender of the clerical interests. Dueñas at one time had taken the vows as a
Dominican, but when the convents were closed in 1829, he left the cloister and secured a
papal dispensation
In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases.The Law of Christ Vol. I, pg. 284 Its object is to modify the hardship often arising from the ...
." Under his leadership, "the clerical party was in the ascendancy and El Salvador experienced a far-reaching Conservative reaction."
[J. Lloyd Mecham, ''Church and State in Latin America'' (]University of North Carolina Press
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, 1966), p. 324
Personal life
Francisco Dueñas Díaz was born on 3 December 1810 in
San Salvador,
El Salvador.
His father was José Miguel Dueñas and his mother was Secundina Díaz.
He married on Teresa Dárdano on 12 February 1866 and his ceremony was presided over by Bishop
Tomás Pineda y Zaldaña.
He had five children: Francisco, Carlos, Miguel, Pablo, and Antonia.
References
Presidents of El Salvador
Vice presidents of El Salvador
1810 births
1884 deaths
People from San Salvador
19th-century Salvadoran people
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