Nicasio V. Oroño was an Argentine

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 politician and lawyer, and governor of Santa Fe between 1865 and 1868.

Youth in the military

Oroño was born to Unitarian

Unitarian Party

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 Coronel Santiago Oroño and Juana Ávila Baigorria. At age 16 he joined his father and participated of the military campaigns directed by Juan Lavalle

Juan Lavalle

Juan Galo de Lavalle was an Argentine military and political figure.-Biography:Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José de La Vallée y Cortés, general accountant of rents and tobacco for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.In 1799, the family moved to...

 and José María Paz

José María Paz

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. In 1839 he married Joaquina Cullen, daughter of Santa Fe governor Domingo Cullen

Domingo Cullen

Domingo Cullen was the governor of province of Santa Fe, Argentina during 1838.Cullen was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, but moved to Argentina in the 1820s after establishing commercial activities in the area. He met Santa Fe's caudillo Estanislao López when serving as a deputy of the Cabildo...

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In 1852 he participated of the Battle of Caseros

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, fighting together with the forces of Entre Ríos

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 under the command of Ricardo López Jordán

Ricardo López Jordán

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, one of the divisions of the Grand Army, against the forces of Buenos Aires

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 led by Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas

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Political career

In 1854 Oroño sent a letter to president of the Argentine Confederation

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 Justo José de Urquiza

Justo José de Urquiza

Justo José de Urquiza y García was an Argentine general and politician. He was president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860.He was governor of Entre Ríos during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires with powers delegated from the other provinces...

 with a proposal for the institutional organization of Rosario

Rosario

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, which was approved.
On August 17 of that year he was named Customs Administrator, an important position during those times.

After the promulgation of the law that gave Rosario city status, the governor of Santa Fe José María Cullen, Oroño's brother-in-law, named him political chief of the city. Oroño created a vigilance service for the city. Under his administration the Provincial Hospital of Rosario was opened. The Municipality of Rosario honoured his legacy by renaming a major street as Oroño Boulevard

Oroño Boulevard

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 in 1904.

Together with Marcelino Freyre, Oroño represented Santa Fe in the Assembly that wrote the Argentine Constitution

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 in 1853.

In 1862 Oroño was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies

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, but in 1865 he resigned, after being chosen to replace Patricio Cullen

Patricio Cullen

Patricio Cullen was the governor of province of Santa Fe, Argentina between 1862 and 1865. He was the second son of Domingo Cullen and Joaquina Rodríguez del Fresno.Cullen was born in the provincial capital Santa Fe...

 as governor of Santa Fe Province. In the latter office he focused on the institutionalization of the province. When he finished his mandate in 1868 he was elected national senator

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, and from his seat he promoted the expansion and population of the country.

After a period of political inactivity, Oroño was named director of the Office of Lands and Colonies of the Nation in 1891, but was removed from the charge after political differences with president

President of Argentina

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 Luis Sáenz Peña

Luis Sáenz Peña

Luis Sáenz Peña was a lawyer and President of Argentina.He graduated in law from the University of Buenos Aires, and participated in the constitutional assembly of 1860. He was a number of times a national deputy and senator. In 1882 he occupied a seat on the Supreme Court of the Province of...

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In 1899 he was elected as constitutional deputy for the convention that a year later sanctioned the provincial constitution of Santa Fe. He was again elected national deputy in 1902, but died two years later.