Francisco Ramón Vicuña

Infobox_President | name=Francisco Ramón Vicuña


order=President Delegate of Chile
term_start=July 14, 1829
term_end=October 19, 1829
predecessor=Francisco Antonio Pinto
successor=Francisco Antonio Pinto
birth_date=1775
birth_place=Santiago, Chile
death_date=death date|1849|1|13|mf=y
death_place=Santiago, Chile
spouse=Mariana de Aguirre
order2=President of Chile
term_start2=November 2, 1829
term_end2=December 7, 1829
predecessor2=Francisco Antonio Pinto
successor2="Acephalous executive"
party=Liberal

Francisco Ramón de Vicuña Larraín (c. 1775 - January 13, 1849) was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as acting President of Chile in 1829.

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 y Boza, and had 11 children with her.

In 1810, Vicuña participated in Chile's war for independence and organized the first firearms 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. In 1825 the Supreme Director of Chile 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 was elected President of Chile, the runner-ups where Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, a liberal federalist, and José Joaquín Prieto, a conservative centralist, who both received the same amount of votes. Nonetheless, congress, the majority of which was liberal, declared Joaquín Vicuña, a distant third and brother of Francisco Ramón (who was president of the senate) Vice-President. The centralists outraged decided for armed resistance and the Chilean Civil War of 1829 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 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 and Manuel Bulnes, the liberal Vicuña could not hold any governmental positions. He died in Santiago on January 13, 1849.

Cabinet

Infobox Chile Cabinet Historical
align=Center
Name=Vicuña
President=Francisco Ramón Vicuña
President start=16 July 1829
President end=7 December 1829
Government Foreign Affairs=Melchor José Ramos
Government Foreign Affairs start=16 July 1829
Government Foreign Affairs end=9 November 1829
Government Foreign Affairs 2=José Nicolás de la Cerda
Government Foreign Affairs start 2=9 November 1829
Government Foreign Affairs end 2=7 December 1829
Finance=Manuel José Huici
Finance start=16 July 1829
Finance end=9 November 1829
Finance 2=Pedro José Prado
Finance start 2=9 November 1829
Finance end 2=7 December 1829
War=José Santiago Muñoz
War start=16 July 1829
War end=9 November 1829
War 2=José Antonio Pérez de Cotapos
War start 2=9 November 1829
War end 2=7 December 1829
Navy=José Manuel Calderón
Navy start=16 July 1829
Navy end=7 December 1829

Additional information

ee also

*Vicuña family

External links

* [http://www.genealog.cl/Apellidos/Aguirre/#AguirreBoza,Mariana Genealogical chart of Vicuña-Aguirre family] es
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