Andrés Narvarte

Infobox_President | name=Andrés Narvarte


order2=6th President of Venezuela
order=Acting President of Venezuela
term_start2=April 24, 1836
term_end2=January 20, 1837
term_start=January 20, 1835
term_end=February 9, 1835
predecessor=José Antonio Páez
successor=José María Vargas
predecessor2=Santiago Mariño
successor2=José María Carreño
birth_date=1781
birth_place=La Guaira, Venezuela
death_date=death date|1853|3|31|mf=y
death_place= Caracas, Venezuela

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Andrés Narvarte (b. La Guaira, 1781 - d. in Caracas, March 31, 1853) was President of Venezuela as interim caretaker (1836-1837).

Lawyer and politician, son of "Joaquín Narvarte y Descarga" and "María Josefa Pimentel y de la Mota", was born in La Guaira, 1781. Vice-president of the Republic and president of Venezuela (1835, 1836 and 1842). Doctor in civil right of the University of Caracas (December 9, 1804), in 1810 was part of the cause for the emancipation of Venezuela. Between 1813 and 1814, was governor of the province of Trujillo, when the Second Republic is lost, emigrated to Saint Thomas. The date of his return to Venezuela is unknown, but in March, 1819 is in "Juangriego", and in 1822 was intendant of Venezuela. In 1830 was designated deputy by Caracas, in the Constituent Congress of Venezuela.

In 1830, the occasion of the discussion in the Congress, about the decree in favor who participated in the attack against the life of the president of the republic, Simón Bolivar, on September 25, 1828, Narvarte says, that he presents his intervention for the political moral, he considered of mercy the persons that had participation in this events, and the restituted of their citizen rights, but the congress did not have to approve a decree by means of which Venezuela solves that the people who participated in the events, deserved praises. In the same opportunity pleaded in the Congress for the admission in Venezuela of all those that have been persecuted and expelled by their political opinions. In 1831 he was designated rector of the Central University of Venezuela.

In 1832, was named Interior and Justice minister. Between 1833 and 1837, was vice-president of the Republic, and temporarily occupied the Presidency of Venezuela in 1835. When the "Revolución de las Reformas" exploded in July, 1835, Narvarte and the president José María Vargas when to exile in Saint Thomas, of which a both few months returned later to hold their respective positions. On April 24, 1836, was in charge again of the first magistrature of Venezuela, this time because the resignation of José María Vargas.

José María Carreño replaces Narvarte in this position, on January 20, 1837. In 1842 was designated vice-president of the Council of Government, in May, was in charge again of the presidency of the republic, because the holder, José Antonio Páez, had to be transferred to his agricultural possessions. Even though it was of short period, Narvarte issued two significant decrees: established a tax for the distillation of alcoholic beverages, and the destination of 160000 "pesos" for the improvements of communication routes. As a result of the events of 1848, Narvarte retired of the politics, dies in Caracas, March 31, 1853.

References

* [http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gob.ve/venezuela/perfil_presidente3.html Andrés Narvarte] — Official biography

See also

*Venezuela
*Presidents of Venezuela