Atanasio de la Cruz Aguirre (2 June 1801 – 28 September 1875) was acting
President of Uruguay from 1864 to 1865.
Background
Aguirre was a member of the
National Party. He served as the
President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay
List of presidents of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay.
Below is a list of office-holders from 1830.
References
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in 1853. He was a Senator from 1861.
On March 1, 1864,
Bernardo Berro
Bernardo Prudencio Berro (April 28, 1803 – February 19, 1868) was the President of Uruguay from 1860 to 1864.
Background
Berro was a member of the National (Blanco) Party. He served as the President of the Senate of Uruguay in 1852, and from ...
stepped down from the Presidency.
President of Uruguay
He assumed the Presidency of Uruguay as next-in-line, in his capacity of
President of the Senate of Uruguay. This lasted until February 1865.
During the
Paraguayan War
The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It was the deadlies ...
,
Francisco Solano López
Francisco Solano López Carrillo (24 July 1827 – 1 March 1870) was President of Paraguay from 1862 until his death in 1870. He was the eldest son of Juana Pabla Carrillo and of President Carlos Antonio López, Francisco's predecessor.
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had sought to send an army to aid Aguirre against
Venancio Flores
Venancio Flores Barrios (18 May 1808 – 19 February 1868) was a Uruguayan political leader and general. Flores was President of Uruguay from 1854 to 1855 (interim) and from 1865 to 1868.
Background and early career
In 1839, he was made politic ...
, who was supported by
Brazilian troops.
With
Montevideo under siege, Atanasio de la Cruz Aguirre stepped down from the Presidency in favour of Senator
Tomás Villalba
Tomás Villalba y Albin (9 December 1805 – 12 July 1886) was a Uruguayan politician who served as interim President for five days (15 February to 20 February 1865), at the end of the Uruguayan War, which had begun on 10 August 1864. The war wa ...
, who soon made peace with the
Colorado Party besiegers, allied with
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
['Atanasio Cruz Aguirre', Wikipedia (in Spanish), :es:Atanasio Cruz Aguirre]
This transition of power marked the coming to Presidential office of heads of state of the Colorado Party, which then remained in office for nearly a century.
See also
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Politics of Uruguay
The politics of Uruguay abide by a presidential representative democratic republic, under which the President of Uruguay is both the head of state and the head of government, as well as a multiform party system. The president exercises executiv ...
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1801 births
1875 deaths
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Uruguayan people of Basque descent
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