Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo (August 18, 1781 in Canelones - December 26, 1868 in Montevideo

Montevideo

Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

) was a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an political figure. He gave his name to Joaquín Suárez (town)

Joaquín Suárez (town)

Joaquín Suárez is a town in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. It is located on the intersection of Routes 84 and 74, northeast of Toledo and southwest of Pando. Sauce lies about to the north. They are all considered parts of the wider metropolitan area of Montevideo.The city is named...

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Head of State of Uruguay

Suárez served as the first head of state of Uruguay

President of Uruguay

The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay is the head of state of Uruguay. His or her rights are determined in the Constitution of Uruguay. Conforms with the Secretariat of the Presidency, the Council of Ministers and the Director of the Office of Planning and Budget, the executive branch...

 in December 1828.

President of Uruguay

Suárez served in the office designated as President of Uruguay from 1843 to 1852, during a civil war against rebels led by Manuel Oribe

Manuel Oribe

Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana was the fourth president of Uruguay.-Biography:Manuel Oribe was the son of Captain Francisco Oribe and María Francisca Viana, a descendant of the first governor of Montevideo, José Joaquín de Viana...

. He was the country's longest ruling president.

Designer of Uruguayan flag

He is credited with designing the Uruguayan flag

Flag of Uruguay

The national flag of Uruguay has a field of nine equal horizontal stripes alternating white and blue. The canton is white, charged with the Sun of May, from which 16 rays extend, alternating between triangular and wavy...

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Known descendants

Santiago Montouliu, 28/Feb/1996 (aged 15)
Beatriz Albano Cerbasi, 24/Jan/1953
Gabriela Garcia Albano, 09/Sep/1972
Pablo Garcia Albano, 27/Jul/1974
Fernanda Garcia Albano, 21/Apr/1977
Valentina Acosta Garcia, 30/May/1998
Julia Pou de Lacalle 1947, wife of former Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera

External links

• Escuela Digital / Biopgraphy of J. Suarez
• Harvard Library / Biopgraphy of J. Suarez
• Open Library / Biopgraphy of J. Suarez (book reference)