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See also:MANUEL See also:MONTT (1809-1880) , Chilean statesman, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:September 18og . He had a distinguished career as a See also:scholar, and was introduced into public See also:life during the See also:presidency (1831-1841) of Arieto by Diego Portales . See also:Montt distinguished himself by his courage in the crisis that followed upon Portales' assassination in 1837, though only holding a sub-See also:ordinate See also:post in the See also:government, and afterwards he held several ministerial offices, and during the presidency (1841-1851) of Bulnes he became See also:minister of See also:justice and public instruction, and later of the interior . He was elected See also:president in 1851 and again in 1856, and though the Liberals chafed under his See also:rule, and two revolutions, in 1851 and 1859, took See also:place during his See also:administration, he governed See also:Chile with an See also:energy and See also:wisdom that laid the See also:foundation of her material prosperity . He was ably assisted by his minister of the interior See also:Antonio Varas, and it was from the See also:union of the two statesmen that the well-known ultra-conservative See also:faction, the Montt-Varistas, took their name . His presidency was marked by the See also:establishment of See also:railways, telegraphs, See also:banks, See also:schools and training-colleges . On giving up his post in 1861 he became president of the Supreme See also:Court of Justice, a position which he held up to his See also:death on the 20th of September 1880 . His son Jorje (b . 1846) was president of Chile in 1891-'896, and a younger son, Pedro (d . 1910), in r906-1910 . See P . B . Figueroa, Diccionario biografico de Chile, 1550—1887 (See also:Santiago, 1888) ; and J . B . See also:Suarez, Rasgos biograficos de hombres notables de Chile (See also:Valparaiso, 1886) . |
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