Evaristo Carazo Aranda (24 October 1821 in
Rivas, Nicaragua
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– 1 August 1889 in
Granada, Nicaragua
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) was the
President of Nicaragua
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The office was created in the Constitution of 1854. From 1825 until ...
from 1 March 1887 until his death on 1 August 1889. He was a member of the
Conservative Party of Nicaragua.
He reached the ranks of Coronel in 1856 in the war against
William Walker.
He was a son of Lorenzo Carazo Alvarado and María del Rosario Aranda Muñoz. Paternal grandson of Francisco Carazo Soto and wife and cousin Jacoba Alvarado Baeza, great-grandson of Pedro Alvarado Guevara and wife Manuela Baeza Baroto and great-great-grandson of Pedro Alvarado Vidamartel and wife Ángela Guevara Sáenz, daughter of Alvaro Guevara Sandoval and wife María Sáenz Vázquez and paternal granddaughter of José Guevara Maldonado and wife Inés Sandoval Pereira, daughter of José Sandoval Ocampo and wife Isabel Pereira Peláez and maternal granddaughter of
Portuguese Sebastián (Sebastião)
Pereira Cardoso and wife Antonia Peláez Vázquez de Coronado, daughter of Diego Peláez de Lermos and wife Andrea Vázquez de Coronado Rodríguez, daughter of Gonzalo Vázquez de Coronado Arias and wife Ana Rodríguez del Padrón, and paternal granddaughter of
Juan Vázquez de Coronado y Anaya and wife Isabel Arias-Dávila.
He was married to Engracia Hurtado Bustos, whom he had five children with. The children's names were Evaristo, Manuel Antonio, Ernesto, Dolores and Maria Benita.
He died in office in
Granada, Nicaragua
Granada () is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of 105,862 (2022), it is Nicaragua's ninth most populous city. Granada is historically one of Nicaragua's most important cities, econ ...
.
References
Carazo Family Tree
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1821 births
1889 deaths
People from Rivas Department
Nicaraguan people of Spanish descent
Conservative Party (Nicaragua) politicians
Presidents of Nicaragua
19th-century Nicaraguan people