- Santiago Derqui
Infobox_President | name=Santiago Derqui
nationality=Argentine
order=4thPresident of Argentina
term_start=March 5 1860
term_end=November 4 1861
predecessor=Justo José de Urquiza
successor=Juan E. Pedernera
birth_date=June 21 1809
birth_place=Córdoba
death_date=death date and age|1867|11|5|1809|6|21
death_place=Corrientes
spouse=
party=Federalist
vicepresident=Juan E. PederneraSantiago Rafael Luis Manuel José María Derqui Rodríguez (born in Córdoba on
June 21 1809 -November 5 1867 ) waspresident of Argentina fromMarch 5 1860 toNovember 5 1861 . He was featured on the 10 Australes note, which is now obsolete.Derqui studied at the Córdoba National University, receiving a degree in law in 1831. At the university he was professor of law, then of philosophy, and finally vice-dean. In 1845 he married Modesta Garcia de Cossio with whom he had three boys and three girls.
He was first assistant and then Minister of the government of
Corrientes Province underJosé María Paz .Justo José de Urquiza named him 'Business administrator' and sent him toParaguay on a foreign business mission. He became deputy for Córdoba Province. In 1854 Urquiza named him head of the "Ministry of Justice, Education and Public Instruction", were he worked for the six years of Urquiza's mandate, pushing forward the still-emerging nation.After Urquiza's mandate, Derqui became constitutional president. Being from Córdoba and not from
Buenos Aires , it was expected that under his rule the continuous revolts of the provincial governments against the federal government would end.Derqui accepted the revised national constitution with the changes that would favour Buenos Aires, and named the country "República Argentina".This and other unpopular policies towards the rest of the country provoked a general discontent in the provinces that led to the
Battle of Pavón . Unable to maintain authority, Derqui resigned and fled toMontevideo .While in exile,
Bartolomé Mitre helped him to go back to his wife's native city ofCorrientes , were he would die a few years later.
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