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Fructuoso Rivera

1784 - 1854

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José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana (17 October 1784 – 13 January 1854) was a Uruguayan general and patriot who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental from Brazilian rule, thrice served as President of Uruguay and was one of the instigators of the long Uruguayan Civil War. He is also considered to be the founder of the Colorado Party, which ruled Uruguay without interruption from 1865 until 1958. He made a controversial decision to almost completely eliminate the native Charrúa during the 1831 Massacre of Salsipuedes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fructuoso Rivera is the 6,763rd most popular politician (up from 7,270th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 37th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Uruguayan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 6,763 out of 19,576. Before him are Friedrich Ebert Jr., Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Suryavarman I, Şevkefza Kadın, Dongcheon of Goguryeo, and Tokugawa Ieshige. After him are Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Bernard de Tremelay, Maria Komnene, and Dan Quayle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 25. Before him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Peter von Cornelius, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Dionisio Aguado y García, and Ferdinand Ries. After him are Moses Montefiore, Louise Lehzen, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, and William Buckland. Among people deceased in 1854, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 12. Before him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, Zénaïde Bonaparte, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. After him are Nathaniel Wallich, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, Jeremias Gotthelf, and John Martin.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 30 out of 444. Before him are Jules Laforgue (1860), Alberto Suppici (1898), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Roque Máspoli (1917), and Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941). After him are Edinson Cavani (1987), Pedro Rocha (1942), Pablo Dorado (1908), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Jorge Batlle (1927), and Álvaro Gestido (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In Uruguay

Among politicians born in Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 8. Before him are Tabaré Vázquez (1940), José Gervasio Artigas (1764), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), and Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941). After him are Jorge Batlle (1927), Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), Manuel Oribe (1792), José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856), Bernardo Arévalo (1958), and Venancio Flores (1808).

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