Adolfo Alsina
Adolfo Alsina Maza (born with Argentinian Buenos Aires in the January 4th 1829 - deceased with Carhué the December 29th 1877) was a jurisconsult and politician of the Argentinian Unit Party, one of the founders of the Party Separatist and Party National Separatist. He was vice-president of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento between 1868 and 1874.
Biography
Wire of the unit politician Valentín Alsina and of Antonia Refined (itself girl of Manuel Vicente Refined), Alsina left with his/her parents to Montevideo in Uruguay when Juan Manuel of Rosas became governor of the province of Buenos Aires for the second time, in 1835. It is there that it began its primary studies. After the Battle of Caseros in 1852, its family returned to Argentina, and his/her father was named minister by the president Vicente López there Planes.Adolfo finishes its secondary studies and joined the unit army at the time of the civil war. In 1860, after the battle of Pavón and the Pact of National union, it belonged to commission responsible for the reform constitution made in 1860. He was elected appointed in 1862. When the project of federalisation of the country, supported by Bartolomé Miter, was put on the carpet at the House of Commons, Alsina provoca a scission within the Unit Party and founded the Party Separatist.
In 1866 he was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires. Alsina then thought of being presented to the presidential elections, but was withdrawn when he discovered that he did not have the support of the majority of the provinces. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was elected president, and appointed Alsina his vice-president.
At the end of the mandate of Sarmiento, in 1874, Alsina joined Nicolás Avellaneda in order to create the Party National Separatist, thanks to which Avellaneda obtained the presidency and named Alsina Ministre for the War and the Navy.
With the end of the year 1875, Amerindian people of Patagonie and Pampa S, especially the Mapuche S, launched attacks organized in order to counter the Argentinian territorial expansion on the level of the south of the areas controlled by the Argentinian ones. The first stage of the Conquête of the Desert started then, by the creation of trench a two meters depth and three meters broad, intended to prevent the movement of the horses and stolen cattle. Alsina also ordered the creation of forts communicating between them by telegraph.
Trying to include/understand the indigenous Amerindian people, it decided to study the situation personally and went to the site, but fell seriously poisoned to Carhué (currently chief town of the partido Adolfo Alsina in province of Buenos Aires), and died of a renal attack.