Coronado Chávez

President of Honduras

Coronado Chávez


President of Honduras
In office 8 January 1845 – 1 January 1847

Personal details
Born	8 November 1807
Died	22 June 1881(1881-06-22) (aged 73) Asunción, Paraguay
Nationality	Paraguayan
Political party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Spouse	Emilia Victoria Alfaro
Children	4

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

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

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

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

^ "Honduras". World Statesmen.org. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
^ ^a ^b Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre. Santurce, Puerto Rico : Caribe Grolier. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7172-5114-8. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Coronado Chavez". historiadehonduras. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Humberto Rivera y Morillo (1997). Jose Trinidad Reyes Sevilla. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
^ 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.
^ ^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.
^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1882). History of Central America . San Francsico, A. L. Bancroft & company. p. 310.
^ Honduras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de (1910). Revista de la Universidad (in Spanish). Tipografía Nacional. p. 728. Retrieved 30 December 2023.