Tomás Villalba

Tomás Villalba Albín ( born December 9, 1805 in Dolores, † July 12, 1886 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan politician.

Villalba, who belonged to the Partido Nacional, since his youth was a supporter Manuel Oribe. He accompanied this because even in the government, " del Cerrito " and was appointed military commander of Soriano. In the following years he had both the political leadership and the site of the police chief in the department of Colonia, then in Soriano and finally in Cerro Largo held. Between 1855 and 1858 he was in financial management Contador General de la Nación (Treasurer of the nation ). In the reign Bernardo Prudencio Berros he held the position of Minister of Finance from 1860 to 1861. As a senator, he was sitting in the 9th parliamentary period from April 24, 1863 for the Department of Canelones in the Cámara de Senadores. There took over 1864 first the office of first vice-president Senate to eventually take over the next year as the successor Atanasio Cruz Aguirre, the Senate presidency. Latter he released then on 16 February in 1865 in governance from and thus acted as interim President of Uruguay. A few days later, on February 20, 1865, he was replaced in that position by Venancio Flores.