Tomás Medina

Tomás Medina Menéndez ( born June 1803 in Santa Ana (El Salvador), † February 13, 1884 ) was from the 1st to February 3, 1848 Supremo Director of El Salvador.

Life

His parents were Juana Menéndez and José Bernardo Medina. In his youth he was a trade contractor. On March 9, 1831 he married Gertrudis Rodriguez. In 1854 he became governor of the department of Sonsonate, the office he held eight months and recommended Teodoro Moreno as his successor, who replaced him. In January 1859, he ran for Parliament for the department of Santa Ana, which had been extracted from the Department of Sonsonate. In January 1860 he took up his parliamentary seat for the departments Metapán and Santa Ana in Parliament and it led to the dissolution of the parliament by Francisco Díaz Dueñas 1863. Medina has acquired considerable wealth. In 1833 he bought the mill from Apanteos, 1836, the haciendas of San Juan del Campo and San Isidro at a price of 80,000 pesos. He died on 13 February 1884 pharyngitis.