Mariano Acosta (politician)
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Mariano Acosta (September 8, 1825September 17, 1893) was an Argentine lawyer and politician.


Life and times

Acosta was born in 1825 to Magdalena Santa Coloma Lezica, the daughter of a prominent Buenos Aires Province landowner, and José Francisco Acosta, from
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. Opposed to the repressive regime of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, Acosta emigrated to
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shortly after his secondary school graduation. He returned following Rosas' defeat at the 1852
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, and was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Legislature later that year. He served as a
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in the Patricios Regiment, and took part in
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's successful pro-autonomy uprising in 1853 against the victor at Caseros,
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. He was returned to the Buenos Aires Legislature the following year and was named Commissioner of Immigration. A dispute with the new Governor,
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, kept Acosta out of public service from 1855 to 1860, when he was elected to the provincial constitutional convention. Acosta married in 1857; his wife, Remedios Oromi, was a niece of
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, the erstwhile wife of General
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(leader of the Argentine War of Independence). Governor
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appointed Acosta Minister of Government in 1862, and he served as a member of the Veterans' Assistance Commission from 1866 to 1872. Acosta, in 1871, also served as a legal adviser to the newly formed Western Railway, and as President of the
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. Acosta returned briefly to the legislature, and in 1872, he was elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province. His tenure became known for its works of infrastructure, and among his varied public works initiatives, he appointed Argentina's first
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,
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, to plan an extensive road and canal building program. Governor Acosta promulgated a new provincial constitution in December 1873, and shortly afterwards, he was named running mate to the
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nominee,
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. Elected handily in September 1874, Avellaneda and Acosta were opposed by Bartolomé Mitre, who maintained a rivalry with Avellaneda's benefactor, outgoing Vice President
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. Acosta devoted his tenure as Vice President to the coordination of the vigorous school-building program President Avenalleda had inherited from his predecessor,
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. He also served as President of the Commission for the Repatriation of the Remains of General San Martín, which Avellaneda had created in 1874, and which fulfilled its objective in 1880; the Liberator of
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and Perú had died in
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in 1850. Acosta retired from public life in 1880, and died in Buenos Aires in 1893, at age 68; a lay
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, Acosta was buried in that city's Church of St. Francis. Having established a town ( Ramallo) and a county ( Almirante Brown), Acosta had another town,
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, named in his honor.Mariano Acosta


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Acosta, Mariano 1825 births 1893 deaths Argentine people of Spanish descent Politicians from Buenos Aires 19th-century Argentine lawyers Governors of Buenos Aires Province Presidents of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province Vice presidents of Argentina National Autonomist Party politicians