Antonio Felipe Díaz | |
Order: | Minister of Finance and of War and the Navy of the |
Office: | Gobierno del Cerrito |
Term Start: | 1843 |
Term End: | 1851 |
President: | Manuel Oribe |
Order2: | Minister of Finance and of War and the Navy of |
Office2: | Uruguay |
Term Start2: | 1838 |
Term End2: | 1838 |
President2: | Manuel Oribe |
Predecessor2: | ? |
Successor2: | ? |
Birth Name: | Antonio Felipe Díaz de Castañon y Hernández |
Birth Date: | March 26, 1789 |
Birth Place: | A Coruña, Spain |
Death Date: | September 12, 1869 |
Death Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Spouse: | María Dionisia Gómez Soriano |
Relatives: | Eduardo Acevedo Díaz (grandson) |
Occupation: | army politician writer journalist |
Profession: | military man |
Serviceyears: | (1807-1865) |
Antonio Felipe Díaz (1789–1869) was a Uruguayan general and politician, who participated in the Argentine War of Independence and the Guerra Grande in the Banda Oriental. He was also a writer and journalist, author of several newspapers, including El Correo Nacional and El Defensor de la Independencia Americana.
He briefly served as a cabinet minister during the presidency of Manuel Oribe in 1838, during his term as president of the Cerrito,[1] serving as Minister of Finance and of War and the Navy of Uruguay.
Born in La Coruña, Spain, as the son of Domingo Díaz de Castañón and Manuela Hernández de Miera, he belonged to a distinguished Spanish family established in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He was married to María Dionisia Gómez Soriano, daughter of José Gómez Soriano and Cayetana Tadea Torres.