Adolfo Ibáñez
Politician, Deceased Person
1827 – 1898
Who was Adolfo Ibáñez?
Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez was a Chilean political figure, who served as minister and diplomat.
He was born in Santiago, the son of Gregorio Ibáñez Salces and of Mercedes Gutiérrez de Miers. After completing his studies in his native city, he graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile on January 9, 1852. He was appointed in 1853 District Attorney for the Appeals Court of La Serena, and in 1855 judge of the Court of Ancud. He was also Judge in Valparaíso. Ibáñez married Josefina Rondizzoni de la Cotera and together they had 9 children.
In 1870 he was sent by President José Joaquín Pérez as minister to Peru, and to him was due the satisfactory arrangement of some differences that had arisen out of the treaty of alliance which the two republics had formed against Spain during the Chincha Islands War. He returned to Chile in 1871 when President Federico Errázuriz Zañartu appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Colonization, and in this office he brought the question of the boundary between his country and Bolivia to a conclusion, and began the claims against the Argentina regarding the territory of Patagonia. He also fostered colonization, and succeeded in attracting a steady current of emigration, he was elected deputy in 1874 for the city of Santiago, and in 1876 to the senate for the province of that name.
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- Born
- Nov 28, 1827
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chile
- Lived in
- Santiago Province
- Died
- Aug 12, 1898
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on July 23, 2013
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