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José Nicolás de la Cerda Concha Santiago, (1767-1847) was a Chilean politician and aristocrat. His father was Nicolás de la Cerda y Sanchez de Barreda and his mother was Nicolasa de Santiago Concha y Lobaton. He was born and died in
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Biography

He embraced the cause of Chilean independence, but was considered a moderate. In 1810, he participated in establishing the ''Junta de Gobierno'' that governed Chile in the name of deposed King
Ferdinand VII , house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_plac ...
. He was a member of the First
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on July 4, 1811, as deputy for Santiago. On September 4, 1811, after the coup of
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against the Congress, he was forced to leave his seat in favor of
Francisco de la Lastra General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta (; October 4, 1777 – May 13, 1852) was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile (1814). Biography He was born in Santiago de Chile, the son of Antonio de la Lastra Cor ...
. Following the establishment of full independence in 1817, he participated in the drafting of the Constitution of 1822, by which legislative elections were called, and he was elected MP for
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, a position he was reelected in 1822 and 1823. In the elections of 1824 he represented San Felipe.


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