Julio Herrera y Obes

Julián Basilio Herrera y Obes Martínez ( born January 9, 1841 in Montevideo, † August 6, 1912 ) was a Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist.

He belonged to the Partido Colorado and was 1872 Tomás Gomensoro Foreign Minister of Uruguay. He was sitting on 15 February 1873 to 19 January 1875 as deputy for the Department of Montevideo in the Cámara de Representantes. Then he was in exile until 1880. Julio Herrera y Obes was a consultant Máximo Tajes ', whom he succeeded as the first civilian president after the military dictatorship ( 1875-1890 ). He held the presidency from 1 March 1890 to 1 March 1894. During this time, the position of the executive over the legislature wanted to strengthen. This policy was, however, of a part of the Colorado River under the leadership of José Batlle y Ordóñez, son of former President Lorenzo Batlle y Grau rejected. In 1894, after the meantime Duncan Stewart had assumed the position of interim president of Uruguay, chosen after intense internal debates Idiarte Juan Borda successor of Julio Herrera y Obes. February 9, 1895 to January 4, 1897, again on 10 February 1897 to 4 February of the following year, he held a position as a senator and represented in this function, the Department of Soriano in the Senate. In the following years he again went into exile for several years. Julio Herrera y Obes, who is the uncle of Julio Herrera y Reissig, worked as part of his journalistic activities, among others, as an editor for the newspaper Revista Literaria and El Chubasco.