Gabriel García Moreno (1821 — 1875) was an Ecuadorianstatesman who twice served as President of that country (1859-1865 and 1869-1875). He is noted for his conservatism, Catholic religious perspective, and rivalry with liberal strongman Eloy Alfaro. Events February 23 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Republic of Ecuador is a country in northwestern South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. ... The term statesman is a respectful term used to refer to diplomats, politicians, and other notable figures of state. ... Juan José Flores 1830-1834 Vicente Rocafuerte 1834-1839 Juan José Flores 1839-1845 José Joaquín de Olmedo 1845 Vicente Ramón Roca 1845-1849 Manuel de Ascásubi 1849-1850 Diego Noboa 1850-1851 José María Urbina 1851-1856 Francisco Robles 1856-1859 Gabriel García 1859... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Eloy Alfaro Delgado (June 25, 1842-January 28, 1912) was president of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. ...
García Moreno founded the Conservative Party in 1869. He was killed in office by a machete-wielding Colombian citizen. The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. ...
The man was GabrielGarciaMoreno, twice President of the Republic, and throughout most of his adult life the nation's most commanding figure as a lawyer, legislator, scholar and soldier, as well as a statesman.
GabrielGarciaMoreno was born on December 24, 1821, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the youngest of eight children.
Under GarciaMoreno, Ecuador, by an act of its Congress, was dedicated as a nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on March 25, 1874.
His father, Gabriel García Gomez, a native of Villaverde, in Old Castile, had been engaged in commerce at Callao before removing to Guayaquil, where he married Dona Mercedes Moreno, the mother of the future Ecuadorean martyr president.
In the reorganization of the Constituent Assembly, which was summoned to meet in January, 1861, he insisted that the suffrage should not be territorial, but "direct and universal, under the necessary guarantees of intelligence and morality, and the number of representatives should correspond (proportionally) to that of the electors represented".
After sparing the lives of the leaders in one of these movements, though they had by all law and custom incurred the penalty of death, he was severely criticized for ordering the execution of another such when it had become evident that an example was necessary for the peace of the republic.
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