Saturnino Manuel de Laspiur Quintana was a politician in
San Juan, Argentina
San Juan () is the capital and largest city of the Argentine province of San Juan in the Cuyo region, located in the Tulúm Valley, west of the San Juan River, at above mean sea level, with a population of around 112,000 as per the (over ...
who was Minister to Governor
Nazario Benavídez
José Nazario Benavídez (27 July 1802 – 23 October 1858) was an Argentine soldier who rose to the rank of Brigadier General and played a leading role in the Argentine Civil Wars. He was Governor of San Juan Province, Argentina, for almost twent ...
in the 1840s.
On 23 March 1820, Saturnino Manuel de Laspiur was one of the signatories on a pact of friendship between the provinces of
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
and
Mendoza.
Laspiur served as acting governor between 1841 and 1844.
On 7 June 1845 he was appointed Minister of Government.
In March 1848 Benavídez again delegated the government to Laspiur while he was in
Mendoza Province, where he commanded the forces of that province in a short campaign against the rebel commander of Fort San Rafael, Juan Antonio Rodríguez. Benavídez soon returned and resumed the government.
Saturnino Manuel de Laspiur's son,
Saturnino María Laspiur Gómez, was implicated in the murder of Benavídez in October 1858.
His son later served as a Minister of Interior of Argentina.
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People from San Juan Province, Argentina