Gerónimo Salguero de Cabrera Moynos (1774 — 25 February 1847), sometimes seen as Luis Jerónimo Cabrera y Cabrera or some variant, was an

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statesman and lawyer. He was a representative to the

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, which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina. Salguero was born in

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to an influential local family. A relative, Diego Salguero de Cabrera, had been bishop of

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, and an ancestor, Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, had established the city of Córdoba in 1573. He was educated at the

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and graduated in civil law in 1796 at the

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, both in Córdoba. He married María Josefa Rolón; they had no children. Salguero was Finance Minister (''Ministro de Hacienda'') in the provincial government of José Javier Díaz. He was elected to represent Córdoba in the

and served for the declaration in 1816. He was, along with his Córdoba colleagues, among the few

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in the Congress, speaking for a system of strong autonomous provinces. In 1819, Salguero was appointed Treasurer of the '' Casa de la Moneda'' (

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) of

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.Brief biographies of members of the Congress of 1816, p25
He also served as prosecutor (''fiscal'') in the appeals chamber in Córdoba, but was forced to resign from his position and leave Córdoba in 1838, at the height of the

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. He died in

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, in 1847. A street in the

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district of Buenos Aires, Jerónimo Salguero, is named after him.

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1774 births 1847 deaths People from Córdoba, Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent National University of Córdoba alumni Members of the Congress of Tucumán 18th-century Argentine lawyers People of the Argentine War of Independence 19th-century Argentine lawyers People from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata {{Argentina-law-bio-stub