Baltasar Estupinián
Baltasar Estupinián | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of El Salvador | |
| In office 1 March 1887 – 17 March 1887 | |
| President | Francisco Menéndez |
| Preceded by | Santiago González Portillo |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Ezeta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1854 |
| Died | March 1922 (aged 67–68) |
Baltasar Estupinián (1854 – March 1922) was a Salvadoran politician who was briefly Vice President of El Salvador during the presidency of Francisco Menéndez.[1]
Estupinián was born in 1854.[2] He worked as a journalist and worked for El Universo.[3] In the beginning of the Rafael Zaldívar administration, Estupinián had to emigrate to Guatemala, fleeing the persecution and harassment.[3] He settled in Quezaltenango, where he founded newspaper El Bien Público.[3]
During the administration of General Francisco Menéndez, Estupinián succeeded José Antonio Quiroz as Minister of Public Works on 21 April 1886.[2] He also assumed the positions of Minister of the Interior,[3] Public Education, Public Works, and Charity.[2]
Estupinián was elected Vice President of El Salvador in the 1887 elections.[2] He took office on 1 March 1887,[1] but was forced to resign from that office by the National Constituent Assembly,[3] to clear the path for President General Menéndez. Shortly after, he also resigned from his other portfolios and relocated permanently to Guatemala City. He also retired from politics at that time.[3] He was a prominent freemason.[2]
Estupinián died in March 1922.[4]
References
- ^ a b Leistenschneider, María; Leistenschneider, Freddy (1980). Gobernantes de El Salvador (biografías). Publicaciones del Ministerio del Interior.
- ^ a b c d e "La Masonería en el mundo – El Salvador" (PDF). Centro Ibérico de Estudios Masónicos (CIEM). 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Garcia, Miguel Angel (1941). DICCIONARIO HISTORICO ENCICLOPEDICO DE LA REPUBLlCA DE EL SALVADOR: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL: HOMENAJE EN EL PRIMER CENTENARIO DE SU FUNDACION RECOPILACION DE DISCURSOS Y DATOS BIOGRAFICOS DE ACADEMICOS DISTINGUIDOS 1841-1941. Impr. Nacional. p. 361.
- ^ "Dr. Baltazar Estupinian". New York Times. 26 March 1922.