- Domingo Esguerra Plata
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Domingo Esguerra Plata 3rd Colombia Ambassador to United Kingdom In office
28 June 1948 – 7 June 1950President Mariano Ospina Pérez Preceded by Darío Echandía Olaya Succeeded by Rafael Sánchez Amaya Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs In office
5 May 1947 – 21 March 1948President Mariano Ospina Pérez Preceded by Luis López de Mesa Gómez Succeeded by Laureano Gómez Castro 1st Colombia Ambassador to Brazil In office
27 December 1938 – 16 January 1940President Eduardo Santos Montejo Preceded by *Office created Succeeded by Carlos Lozano y Lozano Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Brazil In office
8 December 1936 – 27 December 1938President Alfonso López Pumarejo Succeeded by *Office abolished 1st Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Japan In office
28 April 1934 – 4 September 1936President Enrique Olaya Herrera Preceded by *Office created Succeeded by Alfredo Michelsen Mantilla 9th Colombian Minister of Finance and Treasury In office
26 May 1909 – 10 June 1909President Rafael Reyes Prieto Preceded by Nemesio Camacho Macías Succeeded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez Personal details Born 28 March 1875
Santana de las Lajas, Tolima, United States of ColombiaDied 1965
Bogotá, D.C., ColombiaNationality Colombian Political party Liberal Spouse(s) Paulina Rueda Vargas (1908-1946; her death)
Susana Flórez Mariño (1948-1965; his death)Alma mater Universidad Repúblicana (JD) Profession Lawyer Religion Roman Catholic This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Esguerra and the second or maternal family name is Plata.Domingo Esguerra Plata (28 March 1875-1965) was a Colombian lawyer and career diplomat. He served as Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1947 to 1948 during the administration of President Mariano Ospina Pérez, and was the 1st Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Japan, the 1st Ambassador of Colombia to Brazil, and the 2nd Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom as well as serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Argentina in a Special Diplomatic Mission, as well as other positions in the diplomatic corps.
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Career
Graduated Juris Doctor from Univesidad Repúblicana in Bogotá (now the Free University of Colombia) on 26 June 1896,[1] his graduate thesis La Doctrina Monroe was a comprehensive account of the Monroe Doctrine and was held in high regard by his contemporaries.
On 4 September 1906, Esguerra was named First Secretary of the Colombian Legation in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland working under Ignacio Gutiérrez Ponce, the Colombian Envoy to His Britanic Majesty's Government.[2] On 8 October 1908, he was promoted to the rank of Counselor ad honorem, but was instead transferred a few days later on 13 October to the legation in the German Empire still maintaining the same rank, this was at the behest of his friend Gutiérrez who now served as Envoy to His Germanic Imperial and Royal Majesty's Government.[3]
He returned to Colombia in the early months of 1909, and was named Colombian Minister of Finance and Treasury by President Rafael Reyes Prieto in replacement of Nemesio Camacho Macías for a very short period, the appointed was intended to fulfill protocol as President Reyes's term ended a few weeks later. The next year, Esguerra was named Financial Agent of the diplomatic missions in Europe at London. With the inauguration of the League of Nations in Geneva, Esguerra was named Counselor of the Colombian Legation to the First Conference of the League of Nations on 16 January 1920.[4][5] In 1922, he returns to London this time as Consul General.
For his exemplary conduct and diplomatic labour in the name of Colombia, Esguerra was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Government of Japan, the Order of the Southern Cross by the Government of Brazil, the Order of the Liberator by the Government of Venezuela, the Order of Merit by the Government of Ecuador, and the Order of Boyacá by his own, the Government of Colombia.[6] He was also a member and 3 times President of the Sociedad Bolivariana de Colombia, and an Honorary Member of the Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación of Madrid.[6]
In October 1933 he was appointed as the 1st Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Japan by President Enrique Olaya Herrera with the mission of establishing direct diplomatic ties with The Land of the Rising Sun. He traveled from London to Washington, D.C. to meet his colleague Fabio Lozano Torrijos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to the United States and afterwards travelled to Montreal where he traveled by train to Vancouver and sailed off to Japan by way of Honolulu. He arrived to the port of Yokohama, Japan on 20 April 1934 and traveled from there to Tokyo, where on 28 April 1934 he presented his Letters of Credence to Emperor Hirohito.[7]
Ambassadorship to Brazil
In 1936
Personal life
Born 28 March 1975 in the town of Santana de las Lajas (now called Falán) then part of the State of Tolima, United States of Colombia. His parents were Domingo Esguerra Ortiz and Dolores Plata Bernal, but was raised in the home of his paternal uncle Nicolás following the murder of his father in 1987, and remained there after his mother died in 1901. He married on 8 March 1905 to Paulina Rueda Vargas, who died in 1946, and remarried in June 1948 to Susana Flórez Marino who survived him when he died on in Bogotá, D.C., he had no succession from either marriage.[8][9]
Selected works
- Esguerra Plata, Domingo (1896) (in Spanish). La Doctrina Monroe [The Monroe Doctrine] (Thesis). Bogotá: Casa Editorial de J. & L. Pérez. ISBN 9781103804641. OCLC 447664714. http://books.google.com/books?id=W_gMAAAAYAAJ.
See also
References
- ^ Sociedad Bolivariana de Colombia (1963). "Doctor Domingo Esguerra" (in Spanish). Revista Bolivariana (Bogotá: Ministry of National Education) (71): 50. OCLC 4910951. http://books.google.com/books?id=p_IXAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ^ Tamayo, Carlos, ed (October 1907). "Sección Diplomática: Agentes Diplomáticos de Colombia [Diplomatic Section: Diplomatic Agents of Colombia]" (in Spanish). Boletin del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Bogotá: Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 1 (2): 48. OCLC 6574047. http://books.google.com/books?id=kFBIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ^ Tamayo, Carlos, ed (November 1908). "Nombramiento de Consejeros de Legación [Counselor of Legation Appointment]" (in Spanish). Boletin del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Bogotá: Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2 (3): 129. OCLC 6574047. http://books.google.com/books?id=W1FIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ^ Rizzuto, Francisco Antonio; Rizzuto Jr., Francisco Antonio, eds (1947). "La Hidalguía Colombiana Está Representada con Justeza en su Canciller Doctor Esguerra [The Colombian Nobility is Justly Represented in its Chancellor Dr Esguerra]" (in Spanish). Veritas argentina (Buenos Aires: Veritas Editorial) 17 (204): 1819. ISSN 0042-3955. OCLC 1508610. http://books.google.com/books?id=lAPnAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ Koebel, William Henry (1922). Anglo-South American Handbook. New York City: The Macmillan Company. p. 257. ISSN 0309-4529. OCLC 1766070. http://books.google.com/books?id=moVoAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ a b Martin, Percy Alvin; Soares Cardozo, Manoel da Silverira, eds (1946) [1935]. Who's who in Latin America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women of Latin America. 3 (3rd rev. ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 21. OCLC 562723266. http://books.google.com/books?id=zRoNAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ Esguerra Plata, Domingo (1945). Arciniegas, Germán. ed. "Recuerdos del Japón" (in Spanish). Revista de América (El Tiempo) (9-12): 251–254. OCLC 1714202. http://books.google.com/books?ei=WJnZTe7QFo25twfK-P3oDg.
- ^ Restrepo Sáenz, José María; Rivas, Raimundo; Restrepo Posada, José (1993) (in Bogotá). Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá [Genealogies of Santa Fe de Bogotá]. Bogotá: Editorial Presencia. pp. 162–163. OCLC 28546996. http://books.google.com/books?id=TLsLAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ^ López de Mesa Gómez, Luis (1942) (in Spanish). Historia de la cancillería de San Carlos [History of the Chancellery of Saint Charles]. 2. Bogotá: Imprenta del Estado Mayor General. p. 83. OCLC 11113042. http://books.google.com/books?id=-QhOAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
Categories:- 1875 births
- 1955 deaths
- People from Falán
- Colombian lawyers
- Colombian Ministers of Foreign Affairs
- Colombian Ministers of Finance and Treasury
- Ambassadors of Colombia to Argentina
- Ambassadors of Colombia to Brazil
- Ambassadors of Colombia to Japan
- Ambassadors of Colombia to the United Kingdom
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