Rafael Francisco Osejo

Rafael Francisco Osejo (* 1790 in Subtiava, † 1848 in Ciudad de Comayagua, Honduras ) was a professor of Nicaragua, and from 20 to March 28, 1823 President of Costa Rica.

Life

His mother was Escamilla Osejo. With a scholarship, he studied humanities at the Colegio Tridentino San Ramón León ( Nicaragua), which secularized Seminario Conciliar de 1830 San Ramon and later the Universidad de San Ramón de León was. In 1814 he moved to San Jose. Bishop Nicholas Garcia Jerez [ wp 1] hired him as a teacher of Spiritual Science at the Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomas. Rafael Francisco Osejo was from 1814 to February 1815 rector of this institute. In 1817 he settled in Cartago, where he also taught humanities. Among his students were Francisco María Bonilla and Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Oreamuno Rosales. The Casa de Enseñanza de Santo Tomas in San Jose in 1829 awarded him the title of Bachelor of Civil Law. In July 1824, the Institute awarded him the title of Master of Fine Arts and in 1830 he became Professor of Philosophy at that institution.

Osejo remained unmarried. He had a son in Cartago, who has already died as a teenager.

In the Spanish colonial administration

In 1819 he was a member of the Tribunal Consular. In 1820, he was a lawyer in the Cabildo of Ujarrás. [ Wp 2] In 1821 he served as lawyer in the Cablido of Cartago and a member of the medical committee. In 1820 he had a fight with the Jefe Politico subalterno of Costa Rica, Juan Manuel de Cañas - Trujillo, who did not want Rafael Francisco Osejo discussed the Constitution of Cádiz in Cartago.

Offices in the time of independence

He was a Republican and opponent of annexation by the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide. The Cabildo of Ujarrás appointed him delegate to the Junta de Legados de los Pueblos, a Parliament, which met in November 1821, chaired by Nicolas Carrillo y Aguirre. His appointment was revoked and the Junta de Legados de los Pueblos sent delegates to the Congreso de México Constituyente 1821.

In 1822 he devoted himself to the exploitation of a gold mine in the Montes de Aguacate in Alajuela.

In February 1823, he vehemently against a connection to Mexico and for a connection from Costa Rica to Colombia. He was delegate to the Constituent Assembly of the Province of Costa Rica, which met in Cartago on 3 March 1823 at the March 8, 1823 decided the separation of the Mexican empire. In this parliament he was secretary.

President of the Provincial de Costa Rica

On March 14, 1823, he was elected by the Constituent Assembly in a three-man governing junta called Provincial de Costa Rica. The Provincial de Costa Rica consisted of a chairman and two substitutes on. This junta replaced the Junta Superior Gubernativa who chaired José Santos Lombardo y Alvarado. The other members of the Provincial de Costa Rica were Manuel María de Peralta y López del Corral and Hermenegildo de Bonilla Morales. As deputy Alejandro García- Escalante Nava and Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia were appointed. The Diputacion joined the governance of March 20, 1823. At the first meeting Rafael Francisco Osejo was appointed as Chairman of the Diputacion. On March 29, 1823 military coup ended under the guidance of the monarchical caudillo Joaquín de Oreamuno y Muñoz de la Trinidad his government. Osejo could escape the snares of the monarchists to San Jose.

After the presidency

After the collapse of the monarchist government Rafael Francisco Osejo returned in July 1823 and took his seat in the Constituent Assembly true. In August 1823 his mandate was revoked as a delegate and in September 1823 he came under the suspicion that the members of the Provincial conspired with the monarchist coup, to jail. On September 28, 1823 so seised Tribunal Osejos summoned innocence.

In December 1825 he was elected judge of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica, but he did not participate in the election. He was alone justifiable CEO of San Jose From the beginning of 1828. From 1828 to 1830 he was MP for Ujarrás. He supported the Ley Aprílea, a legislative initiative that sparked Costa Rica from 1829 to 1831 from the Central American confederation.

From 1831 to 1833 he was a deputy for the Departemento Alajuela and for some months he was President of the Parliament. He supported the idea of rotating places of government and parliamentary seat, which was realized in 1834 with the controversial Ley de la Ambulancia.

He sat in 1833 by the first compulsory education law for the primary school.

In August 1833 he was appointed auditor and in October 1833 he was Nachrück judge the High Court of Costa Rica. In December 1833 he became a deputy for the department of Oriental de Costa Rica in the Parliament of the Central American Confederation. In May 1834 this mandate was declared invalid. From 1835 to 1836 he was MP for Nueva Segovia and 1836-1837 he was a deputy for León ( Nicaragua). In 1838 he was Jefe Politico of San Salvador and 1847 Representative of Nicaragua in Honduras.