Benjamín Aceval (diplomat)

Tomás Benjamín Aceval Marín (1845 – July 25, 1900) was a Paraguayan statesman, educator and diplomat.

Benjamín Aceval
Monument to Benjamín Aceval on his namesake city
Paraguayan Ambassador to the United States
In office
1877–1879
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay
In office
1877–1877
Preceded byFacundo Machaín
Succeeded byJuan Antonio Jara
In office
1878–1880
Preceded byJuan Antonio Jara
Succeeded byJosé Segundo Decoud
In office
1886–1887
Preceded byJosé Segundo Decoud
Succeeded byJosé Segundo Decoud
Personal details
Born
Tomás Benjamín Aceval Marín

1845 (1845)
Asuncion
DiedJuly 25, 1900(1900-07-25) (aged 54–55)
Asuncion
Alma mater1873 Doctor of Law of the University of Buenos Aires.

Career

He spent most of his youth in Argentina, where he finished his law studies in 1873.

1874 he was minister of justice in the Government of Juan Bautista Gill.[1]

From 1877 to March 1879 he was Minister Plenipotentiary in special mission in Washington, D.C. and represented the government of Higinio Uriarte in the Chaco Boreal dispute with Argentina, after the Paraguayan War, to the President of the U.S.A. Rutherford B. Hayes. In his arbitration, Hayes awarded the region to Paraguay.

From March 1879 to 1886 he was rector of the Colegio Nacional de la Capital.

In 1886, he was foreign minister in the Government of Patricio Escobar.

On February 16, 1887 he negotiated with the Bolivian plenipotentiary Isaac Tamayo,[2] the abortive Aceval-Tamayo Treaty.[3]

He was Minister of Finance of Paraguay from 1895 to 1897.[4]

He died of Bubonic plague, amidst an epidemic that hit Asuncion.

Benjamín Aceval, a town in the Department of Presidente Hayes in Paraguay is named in his honor.[5]

References
  1. Barbara A. Tenenbaum, Georgette M. Dorn, Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Abad to Casa, C. Scribner's Sons, 1996 – 590 p.p. 8
  2. TAMAYO, ISAAC. Nació en La Paz el 12 de marzo de 1844 y murió en la misma ciudad el 8 de agosto de 1914. Su seudónimo: Thajmara. Economista, diplomático, sociólogo, político de conducta contradictoria. Oficial mayor bajo el gobierno
  3. Nickson, p.28,f
  4. Ministerio de Hacienda de Paraguay. "Ministerio de Hacienda - Galería de Ministros y Sedes" (PDF). Ministerio de Hacienda.
  5. The economic reconstruction of Paraguay in the postwar period: politics and property in the era of General Caballero, 1869–1904, p. 272 R. Andrew Nickson, Historical Dictionary of Paraguay,
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