Salvador María del Carril
Salvador María del Carril | |
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Vice President of Argentina | |
In office March 5, 1854 – March 5, 1860 | |
President | Justo José de Urquiza |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Juan Esteban Pedernera |
Personal details | |
Born | August 5, 1798 Federalist Party |
Spouse | Tiburcia Domínguez y López Camelo |
Profession | Lawyer |
Salvador María del Carril (August 5, 1798 – January 10, 1883) was a prominent Argentine jurist and policy-maker, as well as his country's first
Life and times
Early life
Born in the
General
Governor of San Juan
Taking office in January 1823, the 24-year-old Governor undertook an ambitious modernization program, commissioning the construction of roads, bridges, water works, public buildings and parks, purchasing the province's first
The liberal May Charter, the first in Argentina to guarantee
National policy-maker
Del Carril's efforts, however, had gained him the respect of the influential
The dissolution of national government ensued within months, in favor of an Argentine Confederation. The advent of the populist Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Manuel Dorrego, was opposed by del Carril, who became an adviser to a conservative insurrection led by General Juan Lavalle. Lavalle's violent 1828 overthrow of Dorrego returned del Carril to the cabinet as Finance and Foreign Minister. A countercoup led by General Juan Manuel de Rosas, a supporter of Dorrego's, forced Lavalle to call elections, though del Carril's manipulation of the results triggered Rosas' overthrow and del Carril's subsequent exile in Montevideo.[2]
Exile and return
Del Carril remained an active opponent of Rosas' while in exile, supporting a failed 1830 invasion of
The 1843 overthrow of his ally, President Fructuoso Rivera of Uruguay, forced del Carril yet again into exile, and he fled to Brazil. He cultivated a friendship via correspondence with the powerful Governor of Entre Ríos, Justo José de Urquiza, in subsequent years, and following the latter's defeat of Rosas' forces in the 1852 Battle of Caseros, del Carril returned to Argentina.[3]
Vice Presidency
Del Carril was elected to the assembly that approved the 1853
President Urquiza took care to preserve balance in his government between the two camps, placing the Vice President as a counterweight to the
Nominating Derqui instead, Urquiza's choice led to renewed conflict with Buenos Aires, and to Derqui's resignation and exile in 1861. National unity on the brink, del Carril negotiated a settlement between Urquiza and the leader of the Buenos Aires insurrection, General
Del Carril was a conservative justice, and reliably voted in favor of the executive's frequent use of
Epilogue
Del Carril became a wealthy man, and in later life owned over 130,000 hectares (330,000 acres) of land in the agriculturally productive La Pampa Province (worth around a million dollars, at the time).[2] Debts incurred by his wife's spending habits strained the marriage, however, and the seasoned lawyer obtained a discharge of his responsibility for their repayment (leaving the debts in her name, solely). The couple subsequently separated, and after the judge's 1883 burial in an ornate La Recoleta Cemetery crypt, Mrs. del Carril commissioned the grave's sculptor, Camilo Romairone, to create a bust of her likeness - with its back turned towards that of her husband's; she died in 1898.