Francisco Bernabé Madero (October 14, 1816 – 1896) was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He served as Vice President of Argentina, and founded the town of Maipú.

Life and times

Madero was born in Buenos Aires to María del Carmen Viana and Juan Bernabé Madero, the latter a Spanish nobleman whose family was originally from

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. He became an active

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supporter, and joined Francisco Ramos Mexía as a leader of a failed 1839 rebellion against the Unitarians' nemesis, Buenos Aires Governor

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. He married a daughter of Ramos Mexía's, Marta, in 1848, and had six children with her. They relocated to Spain after the wedding, but returned to

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following Rosas' defeat at the 1852

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, and dedicated himself to

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at his wife's

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ranch, in rural Monsalvo. He was named Justice of the Peace of Monsalvo in 1857, and was elected to

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in 1862. Madero retired to his ranch in 1866, though he was elected to the

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in 1872. His tenure as Senator was marked by his work in the Economic Policy Committee and his having the newly established hamlet of Maipú recognized as a town.Torres Cano, Manuel. ''Historias ferroviarias al sur del Salado''. p.73-4. Mar del Plata: EUDEM, 2008. Little known outside his local area, Madero was named the running mate for the governing

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candidate,

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. Elected in 1880, Madero built on the relationship he had established with the Western Railway (whose reaching Maipú that year had been the result of his efforts) to encourage their expansion throughout

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. Madero retired from public life in 1886, and retired to land owned by his wife in La Matanza County, just west of Buenos Aires. He died in 1896, and the property was later incorporated into the town of Villa Madero in 1901. A nephew of his,

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, obtained British financing to develop what today is known as

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, former docklands that in the 1990s became Buenos Aires' newest neighborhood.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Madero, Francisco Bernabe 19th-century Argentine judges Members of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies Vice presidents of Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent Politicians from Buenos Aires Lawyers from Buenos Aires 1816 births 1896 deaths National Autonomist Party politicians Patrician families of Buenos Aires