Francisco Ramón de Vicuña Larraín (; September 9, 1775 – January 13, 1849) was a
Chilean
political figure. He served twice as
acting President of Chile in 1829. Francisco Vicuña was of
Basque descent.
Early life
He was born in
Santiago on 1775, the son of Francisco de Vicuña Hidalgo y Zavala and of María del Carmen Larraín Salas y Vicuña. He married
Mariana de Aguirre, and had 11 children with her.
In 1810, Vicuña participated in
Chile's war for independence and organized the first
firearm
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s production in the country. In 1811, he represented
Osorno in the congress, which was to give Chile a constitution, in 1814, he moved to the
Senate of Chile. Then, he was arrested for
conspiracy against the
Spanish crown and banished into exile. Only after Chile's victory at the
battle of Chacabuco in 1817, was he able to return to his home land.
Bernardo O'Higgins appointed him as a government representative to the northern provinces.
Political life
In 1823 he became the head of the administration of
Santiago and then as a delegate to the constitutional convention that year. He was one of the main defenders of the Federalist position championed by
José Miguel Infante y Rojas
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. In 1825 the
Supreme Director of Chile
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Ramón Freire appointed him to be his deputy as well as foreign and interior minister and at times acting war, naval, and finance minister.
In 1829, when
Francisco Antonio Pinto
Francisco Antonio Pinto y Díaz de la Puente (; July 23, 1785 – July 18, 1858) was a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.
Early life
He was born in Santiago, the son of Joaquín Pinto and Mercede ...
was elected
President of Chile, the runners-up were
Francisco Ruiz-Tagle Portales
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Biography
He was b ...
, a liberal federalist, and
José Joaquín Prieto Vial
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, a conservative centralist, who both received the same number of votes. Nonetheless, congress, the majority of which was liberal, declared
Joaquín Vicuña Larraín
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, a distant third and brother of Francisco Ramón (who was president of the senate)
Vice President of Chile. The centralists outraged decided for armed resistance and the
Chilean Civil War of 1829
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broke out.
In the ensuing
civil war between the conservative centralists and the liberal federalists, Pinto was forced twice to leave the post of president to Vicuña. First, from July 14 to October 19, when Vicuña assumed as President Delegate, and then finally when he resigned on November 2 and Vicuña assumed power. On December 7, 1829 the conservative troops under
José Joaquín Prieto Vial
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approached Santiago from the South. The government under Vicuña fled northward to
Coquimbo, where they were, however, imprisoned by the victorious conservative troops. Then, Chile was without a leader for a few weeks (from December 7 to 24, 1829) until a
Government Junta was organized and took control under
José Tomás Ovalle.
Under the centralist governments of
José Joaquín Prieto Vial
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and
Manuel Bulnes
Manuel Bulnes Prieto (; December 25, 1799 – October 18, 1866) was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile, from 1841 to 1846 and from 1846 to 1851.
Born in Concepción, he served as the president of Chile bet ...
, the liberal Vicuña could not hold any governmental positions. He died in
Santiago on January 13, 1849.
Cabinet
See also
*
Vicuña family
*
Chilean Civil War of 1829
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* Something of, from, or related to Chile, a country in South America
* Chilean people
* Chilean Spanish
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* Chilean Americans
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*List of Chileans
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*
Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830
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1775 births
1849 deaths
People from Santiago
Presidents of Chile
Chilean Ministers of the Interior
Foreign ministers of Chile
Chilean Ministers of Defense
Chilean people of Basque descent
People of the Chilean Civil War of 1829–30
Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) politicians
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