Matías de Irigoyen

For the Governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1820, see Miguel de Irigoyen.

Matías de Irigoyen
Born
Matías Ramón de Irigoyen de la Quintana

(1781-02-25)25 February 1781
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Died20 September 1839(1839-09-20) (aged 58)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Matías de Irigoyen (25 February 1781 – 20 September 1839) was an Argentine military officer and politician. Trained in the Spanish Navy and present at the Battle of Trafalgar, he returned to Buenos Aires in 1809 and joined the revolutionary cause after the May Revolution. He was dispatched on the first diplomatic mission to Britain in 1810; later he briefly formed part of a provisional executive named in April 1815, served as capitán del puerto (Captain of the Port) of Buenos Aires (1815–1816), and held senior wartime posts including Secretary (Minister) of War and Navy during the Directorial period. In February 1820, amid the political crisis following the Battle of Cepeda, he briefly served as interim governor in Buenos Aires before the installation of Manuel de Sarratea.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.