Coronado Chávez

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Coronado Chávez
President of Honduras
In office
8 January 1845 – 1 January 1847
Personal details
Born8 November 1807
Died22 June 1881(1881-06-22) (aged 73)
Asunción, Paraguay
NationalityParaguay Paraguayan
Political partyAuthentic Radical Liberal Party
SpouseEmilia Victoria Alfaro
Children4

Coronado Chávez (8 November 1807–22 June 1881) was President of Honduras from 8 January 1845 to 1 January 1847.[1] He was appointed by Francisco Ferrera as Vice President of Honduras from 1841 to 1843, and for the week prior to his taking office he had been a member of the council of ministers that was running Honduras along with Casto Alvarado. He was succeeded by Juan Lindo.

Early life[edit]

Coronado Chávez was born to María Mercedes Chavez in 1807. He was a carpenter by trade. He would return to this job after an exile in El Salvador with Ferrera.[2][3] He died in 1881 at the age of 73.

Career[edit]

Chávez and Santos Guardiola, Francisco Ferrera, and Felipe Jáuregui formed a "clique" and operated in each other's interests.[4] He worked in politics as Minister of Finance[5] and both Minister of Exterior and Minister of War in 1843.[2] In 1846, after Malespín's War, he took the title of Padre Conscripto, after the Roman title Pater Patriae. For this, he was ridiculed by some.[6]

Presidency[edit]

His presidency began in 8 January 1845 after Francisco Ferrera's second term ended, being elected by the legislature. In that vote, he ran against José Santos Guardiola.[7] Honduras' Constitution did not allow for a third term. However, Chávez is said to have acted as the puppet of Ferrera, who remained the effective leader.[6] He defended himself, saying "not a single instance could be cited in which he [sic] allowed himself to be dictated to by any military leader or had acted subject to any such leader's will or caprice."[8]

As president, he encouraged the growing of coffee and hat manufacturing. He exempted military veterans from paying their first fruits and tithes.[3] He created the Literary Society of Honduras in 1846, which became the state university in 1850 under Juan Lindo.[3] It was also renamed the Literary Academy of Tegucigalpa.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Honduras". World Statesmen.org. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
  2. ^ a b Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre. Santurce, Puerto Rico : Caribe Grolier. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7172-5114-8. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Coronado Chavez". historiadehonduras. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b Humberto Rivera y Morillo (1997). Jose Trinidad Reyes Sevilla. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  5. ^ García Buchard, Mercedes Ethel (2007). DINÁMICA POLÍTICA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN NACIONAL ESTATAL EN HONDURAS (1838-1872) (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). Ciudad Universitaria "Rodrigo Facio" Costa Rica. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2021.
  6. ^ a b Maestre, Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera (1881). Reseña histórica de Centro-América (in Spanish). Tip. de "El Progreso". p. 228. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  7. ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1882). History of Central America . San Francsico, A. L. Bancroft & company. p. 310.
  8. ^ Honduras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de (1910). Revista de la Universidad (in Spanish). Tipografía Nacional. p. 728. Retrieved 30 December 2023.


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