Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano also known as Pedro Nolasco Martínez de Vergara Albano (

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, 1800 -

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, September 23, 1867) was a

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, governor and farmer.

Family

His parents were José Francisco Martínez de Vergara y Rojas-Puebla and María del Rosario Albano de la Cruz, while she was also the daughter of Juan Albano Pereira Márquez and Bartolina de la Cruz y Bahamonde. He married her cousin Mercedes Loys Vergara, with whom he had eleven children: Elisa, Natalia, Víctor, Maria, Agustina, Soledad, Matilde, Rafael,

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, Sabina and Filomena. He was nephew of Vicente, Juan Manuel, Anselmo and Nicolas de la Cruz y Bahamonde -who was Conde de Maule-, and cousin of Diego Vergara Albano, Juan Albano de la Cruz and Casimiro Albano de la Cruz. Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano was

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during the Reconquest along with 40 other patriots in Juan Fernández Island and forgiven on November 26 of 1816.

Studies

He completed his primary and secondary education in

, under the tutelage of the Jesuits. Afterwards, on his higher education, he got a degree in Law, in 1822, at the

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Public life

Deputy

He was elected

for the province of Colchagua in 1823, being reelected in 1824, in

, and later in the period 1827–1830, in the

province of Talca Talca Province ( es, Provincia de Talca) is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital is the city of Talca. Administration As a province, Talca is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed b ...

. He was elected deputy between 1833 and 1836, and was again re-elected on the same district until 1847. He was a renowned politician and worked as a deputy until 1847. He participated in many legislative committees, and after losing his sight, he subsequently retired to a private life in 1859, living in

, in Huérfanos street. Being blind, he was prevented from exercising any public activity at the time.

Governor

He was governor of Talca between 1830 and 1833, in the rising of the ideas of

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and the triumph of

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, and their conservative ideas, over

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Personal life

Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano was an ''estanquero'', also referred to as ''los de Portales'', a conservative Chilean political group, that organized around the figure of

, and a key actor in implementing this group in

. He was also a farmer, one of the major landowners of the province, owning the following irrigated fields: Estate ''Los Libros'', of 197 blocks (330.96 hectare); estate ''Las Doscientas'', with 870 blocks (1461.60 hectares), and estate ''Libún'', of 606 blocks (1018.08 hectares), and large portions of fincas in the

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. He also had over 34,000 head of cattle. After he became blind in 1859, he trusted the management of his farm business to his son in law Vicente Correa Albano.

Death

After arriving to Santiago in 1859, he makes his will on May 9, of 1865. He was found dead in his home on September 23, of 1867 and was buried in the mausoleum of Juan Garin Cereceda, who was married with his daughter Soledad Vergara Loys. His fortune was estimated at over 120,000 at the time of his death.Registro del Cementerio General, año 1867, Libro 6, Folio 56, Mausoleo de Juan Garín Cereceda

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vergara Albano, Pedro Nolasco 1800 births 1867 deaths People from Talca Chilean people of Basque descent People of the Chilean Civil War of 1829–30

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