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Juan José Paso

Argentine politician

Summary

Argentine politician

Field	Value
name	Juan José Paso
image	Juanjpaso.jpg
nationality	Argentine
order	Member of the Primera Junta and the Junta Grande
term_start	25 May 1810
term_end	December 1811
president	Cornelio Saavedra
order2	Member of the First Triumvirate
term_start2	23 September 1811
term_end2	23 March 1812
alongside2	Feliciano Chiclana, Manuel de Sarratea
successor2	Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
order3	Member of the Second Triumvirate
term_start3	8 October 1812
term_end3	20 February 1813
alongside3	Antonio Álvarez Jonte, Nicolás Rodríguez Peña
successor3	José Julián Pérez
order4	Representative to the Congress of Tucumán
term_start4	24 March 1816
term_end4	11 February 1820
birth_date
birth_place	Buenos Aires
death_date
death_place	Buenos Aires

Juan José Esteban Paso, (January 2, 1758, Buenos Aires – September 10, 1833) was an Argentine politician who participated in the events that started the Argentine War of Independence known as May Revolution of 1810.

Biography

Early life

Juan José Paso is the son of Domingo de Passo. Domingo left Spain and moved to Buenos Aires in 1750. He worked as a baker; Buenos Aires had a scarce production of bread at the time. Domingo got married with María Manuela Fernández Escandón on March 8, 1755. Domingo became a vecino after his marriage. Their son Juan José Esteban Paso was born on January 2, 1758, and baptized five days later. The place of Paso's initial education is unknown, but it was not the Real Colegio San Carlos, as he is not among its recorded list of students.

Paso studied at the University of Córdoba and graduated in Theology in 1779. Back in Buenos Aires, he was named professor of philosophy at the Colegio Real de San Carlos (Royal School of San Carlos). In 1783 he moved to the Upper Peru and studied law in the University of Chuquisaca; only to return to Buenos Aires as a lawyer in 1803. After the British invasions of the Río de la Plata he pursued a political career as a revolutionary leader moved by the new national identity that was growing among the 'criollos'.

Like many other nineteenth century Argentines prominent in public life, he was a freemason.

Juntas

Paso assisted with the Cabildo Abierto of May 22, 1810 and supported the faction that sought the dismissal of viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, convincing many others with a fervent speech. He participated in the creation of the First Junta (Primera Junta) government on May 25 and was named Secretary of the Junta along with Mariano Moreno, with whom he shared political points of view. He was sent by the Junta to Montevideo (today's Uruguay capital city) to spread the ideas of the revolution.

Paso was also part of the First Triumvirate and the Second Triumvirate that ruled the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Argentina) between 1811 and 1814. During this period he participated in the Asamblea del año XIII and was sent to Chile as a representative. But the negotiations with Chilean patriots failed and the Capitaincy of Chile refused to take part in the Union.

Congress of Tucumán

In 1815 Paso was named assistant to the Supreme Director and war consultant. He was later elected a representative to the Congress of Tucumán that declared the Argentine Independence on July 9, 1816. As Secretary to this Congress, Paso had the honor of reading the independence act. However, he was then imprisoned and charged of treason for supporting the monarchist faction that wanted a monarchy as government for the new nation. He was quickly released along with the other monarchist deputies.

Buenos Aires' legislature

Elected a member of the Buenos Aires Province Legislature in 1822, Paso later became president of that body. In 1824, he was again elected representative for the National Congress and supported the nomination of Bernardino Rivadavia as the first President of Argentina.

He retired from politics in 1826 disgusted with the violent disagreements among the provinces that divided themselves between Unitarians and Federalists.

References

Bibliography

References

Tanzi, pp. 9-12
Denslow, William R.. (1957). "10,000 Famous Freemasons". Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co Inc.

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