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Mariano Melgarejo

1820 - 1871

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Manuel Mariano Melgarejo Valencia (13 April 1820 – 23 November 1871) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the fifteenth president of Bolivia from December 28, 1864, until his fall on January 15, 1871. He assumed power in 1864 after staging a coup d'état against president José María de Achá, thus beginning six-year dictatorship, popularly known as the Sexenio. He would cement his power after personally killing former president Manuel Isidoro Belzu in 1865. He was of controversial personality and his dictatorship is remembered in Bolivia mainly for its poor government administration and its abuses against the indigenous population, in addition to having signed unfavorable border treaties with Chile and Brazil in 1866 and 1867, which proved to be devastating in coming years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mariano Melgarejo is the 13,477th most popular politician (down from 12,737th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Bolivia (down from 21st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Bolivian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 13,477 out of 19,576. Before him are Leila de Lima, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, Alla Kushnir, Victor Schœlcher, Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Maria Gusakova. After him are Prince Hassan bin Talal, Heinrich Lammasch, Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders, Jim Gibbons, Neferuptah, and Marina Silva.

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Among people born in 1820, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 61. Before him are Juan N. Méndez, Carolina Coronado, Sergey Solovyov, Anton Josef Gruscha, Elisha Kent Kane, and Nikolay Girs. After him are William Howard Russell, Alexander Serov, Andrej Sládkovič, Gillis Bildt, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Jakob Stämpfli. Among people deceased in 1871, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 54. Before him are Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Anna Sundström, Peter von Hess, François Delsarte, and Stand Watie. After him are Henri Regnault, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Alexander Serov, Victor Motschulsky, Willibald Alexis, and Paul Kane.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 23 out of 105. Before him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Germán Busch (1903), Enrique Peñaranda (1893), Gualberto Villarroel (1908), and Julio Terrazas Sandoval (1936). After him are Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), Hilarión Daza (1840), Ulises Saucedo (1896), José Ballivián (1805), José Luis Tejada Sorzano (1882), and David Padilla (1927).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 18. Before him are Carlos Mesa (1953), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Germán Busch (1903), Enrique Peñaranda (1893), and Gualberto Villarroel (1908). After him are Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), Hilarión Daza (1840), José Ballivián (1805), José Luis Tejada Sorzano (1882), David Padilla (1927), and Cornelio Saavedra (1759).

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