Nicolás Rodríguez Peña

Nicolás Rodríguez Peña ( born April 30 1775 in Buenos Aires, † December 3, 1853 in Santiago) was an Argentine politician.

Career

Nicolás Rodríguez Peña received his education at the Colegio Real de San Carlos. In 1795 he began his military career as a cadet in the Fijo de Regiemento Caballeria in Buenos Aires. Because he felt no desire to continue his military career, he devoted himself after his retirement from the army to the trade and was henceforth worked as a businessman. He pursued inter alia a soap factory in Buenos Aires.

He was in 1810 one of the leaders of the so-called May Revolution. Peña was briefly governor of La Paz in February 1811, he returned to Buenos Aires back and took the place of Mariano Moreno in the first junta. In April 1811, he was, however, overthrown by a revolution that ousted and exiled. In October 1812 he became a member of the Second Triumvirate by the so-called October Revolution.

The Constituent Assembly of Argentina appointed him after the October Revolution to the President of the State Council, the consejo de Estado. In 1814 he became the first governor of the eastern provinces, the provincia oriental. From 1815 he worked with General San Martín in the construction of an army in the Andes.

He spent his last years in exile in Chile. He died in Santiago de Chile in December 1853.

Swell

• Biography of Nicolás Rodríguez Peña www.todo - argentina.net
• Biography of Nicolás Rodríguez Peña
• Http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/1782230

• Politicians (19th Century )
• Politicians (Argentina )
• Argentine
• Born in 1775
• Died in 1853
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