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Domingo Sosa
Colonel Domingo Sosa (1788 – May 1866) was an Argentine soldier who became an army colonel and took part in the wars of independence and in the Argentine civil war. He later became a politician, serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Buenos Aires, and as a member of the province's 1854 constitutional convention. He was the first Afro-Argentine to be elected to such high offices. Biography Born a slave, Sosa had no education, though he subsequently managed to learn to read and write. He was enlisted into the Regimiento de Castas (a mixed-race regiment) of the city in 1808. From 1811 he took part in the two sieges of Montevideo until their end, taking part in the attack in the Battle of Cerrito, with the toughest part of the conflict borne by the "blacks" in the regiment of Colonel Miguel Estanislao Soler. On being mentioned in dispatches he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In April 1813 he took part in a campaign under the orders of Domingo Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires Province Chamber Of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies of Buenos Aires Province ( es, Cámara de Diputados de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the lower house of the Legislature of Buenos Aires Province, the largest and most populous of Argentina's provinces. It is made up of 92 deputies elected in eight multi-member constituencies known as Electoral Sections. The number of deputies that correspond to each of the electoral sections is proportional to their population, as observed in the results of every nationwide census conducted in Argentina every 10 years. Seats may only be added to adjust the proportionality of each section, but never reduced. As in the National Chamber of Deputies and most other provincial legislatures, elections to the Chamber are held every two years, so that half of its members are up in each election, making it a rare example of staggered elections used in a lower house. The Chamber was established with the promulgation of the Constitution of the State of Buenos Aires, a short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
