Mariano Vera
Mariano Vera was a "caudillo" and governor of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, between 12 April 1816 and 23 July 1818.
Vera was a supporter of federalism, against the idea of a centralized government.
After the proclamation of the first national government junta, in 1810, Santa Fe was ruled by lieutenant governors sent from the capital Buenos Aires, which did not sit well with many local citizens and worked to increase the influence of the federalist leader José Gervasio Artigas, based on the Eastern Bank (today's Uruguay).
The Supreme Directorship invaded Santa Fe in March 1815; the next month Artigas liberated it and set up Francisco Antonio Candioti as governor.
Candioti was in turn ousted and replaced by the centralist Juan Francisco Tarragona.
Vera and other political leaders, notably Estanislao López, gathered the support of Candioti's followers, and rebelled in March 1816, helped by Artigas's troops coming via Paraná, Entre Ríos.
Buenos Aires's occupation forces under Juan José Viamonte were defeated, and Mariano Vera was elected governor of Santa Fe.
Soon afterwards, the governments of Santa Fe and Buenos Aires signed treaties by which Buenos Aires acknowledged Santa Fe as a "free and independent" entity until a national constitution was drawn by the upcoming Congress of Tucumán.
Santa Fe would send a deputy to the Congress, and the economically essential roads passing through Santa Fe towards Peru and Chile would not be closed to traffic.
Governor Vera thus adopted a pragmatical equilibrium stance between Artigas and Buenos Aires, prioritizing the interests of the province rather than ideological concerns.
Santa Fe, an agricultural region beside the Paraná River, needed to have access to the port of Buenos Aires and at the same time could not allow Buenos Aires to centralize power, which would make its port the only one allowed to function (as it happened decades later, during the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas).
However, the government of Buenos Aires delayed the ratification of the treaties, and started a campaign to retake power in Santa Fe, first through a failed military operation in August 1816, and then giving support to Vera's political enemies and to uprisings in Santa Fe and other provinces.
Vera turned decidedly to support the cause of Artigas, sending troops, guns and supplies to the Eastern Bank (modern-day Uruguay).
The hostilities continued.
In March 1818 Buenos Aires sent new military missions to Santa Fe and Entre Ríos.
Governor Vera, weakened, was eventually ousted by his former ally Estanislao López, who would prevail over the centralist army and rule the province for twenty years.
John Charles Wester
John Charles Wester,( born November 5, 1950) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, the twelfth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Terri Witek
Terri Witek( born Therese Ann Damm in Sandusky, Ohio, United States) is a U.S. poet.
Her collections include The Rape Kit( 2018 – winner of the Slope Editions Prize)," Body Switch"( 2016)" Exit Island"( 2012)," The Shipwreck Dress"( 2008)," Carnal World"( 2006);" Fools and Crows"( 2003); and Courting Couples( 2000), a Center for Book Arts Prize winner, She is also the author of" Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self."
She has published poems in many journals, including the American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and Slate, and created both site- specific and ephemeral work for social media and performance.
Witek teaches poetry and poetics, especially at the place where these cross over into other media.
Throughout her career she has worked with visual artists, and the reverberations between mediums is explored in much of her work.
Her collaborations with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes( cyriacolopes.com) include solo shows at Oi, Futuro( Flamengo) in Rio de Janeiro( 2017), the Crisp Ellert Museum( 2014), The Blue Gallery in Chania, Greece( 2014), the Hand Art Center( 2012), the Markland House Museum( 2010), and the Faulconer Gallery( 2010), and they also participated in group shows at the Chosunilbo Museum, Korea( 2014), Art in Odd Places, NYC( 2012), and Contemporary Flanerie: Reconfiguring Cities, Oakland University Gallery, MI( 2009).
Their performances have been seen at the Academia das Sciencias and Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal( 2016, 2015, 2014), the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts( 2016)
The Salford Museum, Greater Manchester, England( 2013), and Recession Art, NYC,( 2012).
Witek and Lopes team- teach Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University's low residency MFA of the Americas and run" The Fernando Pessoa Game" at Disquiet International.
New media artist Matt Roberts( mattroberts.com) and Witek have collaborated on interactive smart phone projects that have likewise been featured both nationally and internationally.
Witek holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and, in addition to teaching Poetry in the Expanded Field in the graduate program, directs the undergraduate Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, where she holds the Art& Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing.
In 2000, she received the McInery Award for Teaching, and in 2008, she received the John Hague Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the liberal arts and sciences.
She is married to the comic book scholar Joseph Witek.
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Michael Sheehan (archbishop of Santa Fe)
Michael Jarboe Sheehan( born July 9, 1939) is a retired American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eleventh Archbishop of Santa Fe.
He was the Bishop of Lubbock from 1983 to 1993.
David Coss
David Coss served as mayor of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2006 to 2014.
He was elected to a four- year term in March 2006 after serving on the Santa Fe City Council from 2002- 2006 representing the City's District 3.
He was also elected to a second four- year term in March 2010.
As a City Councilor, he co-sponsored Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and supported a subsequent minimum wage increase to$ 9.50 per hour.
Coss also supported the Santa Fe Homes Program, an award- winning ordinance that requires 30 percent affordable housing in all new residential developments in Santa Fe.
As mayor, he is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of" making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets."
The Coalition is co- chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Prior to his election as mayor, Coss held jobs as director of the New Mexico Environmental Protection Division; environmental scientist for the New Mexico Environment Department; director of the Field Operations Division, State Land Office; director of Public Works, City of Santa Fe; and city manager of the City of Santa Fe. Mayor Coss is a 1972 graduate of Santa Fe High School.
He has a bachelor's degree in agriculture from New Mexico State University and a master's degree in zoology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
He is a Roman Catholic.
David Coss is a longtime union supporter and has served in the capacities of organizer, negotiator, and president of Communications Workers of America State Government Local.
Nicasio Oroño
Nicasio V. Oroño( July 20, 1825 in Coronda, Santa Fe – October 12, 1904 in Santa Fe) was an Argentine politician and lawyer, and governor of Santa Fe between 1865 and 1868.
Albert Daeger
Albert Daeger (March 5, 1872 – December 2, 1932) was the sixth Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Born in St. Anne, Indiana, Daeger was ordained a priest on July 25, 1896, for the Franciscan order.
His assignments included Kansas City, Missouri; Lincoln, Nebraska; Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pena Blanca, New Mexico; Sacred Heart Parish, Farmington, New Mexico (as the first Franciscan Pastor of the Parish); and San Diego Mission, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico.
On March 10, 1919, he was appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe and then consecrated on May 7, 1919.
In December, 1928, he presided at the mass of funeral of Father Anton Docher in Isleta Pueblo.
Daeger died on December 2, 1932 in Santa Fe after sustaining injuries from a fall down a coal chute.
José Manuel Corral
José Manuel Corral( born October 28, 1968 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina) is a lawyer, a political activist of the Unión Cívica Radical party, and a member of the Coalition Frente Progresista Cívico y Social of Santa Fe.
He was the President of the Municipal Council of the City of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz( 2010 – 2011).
He has been reelected Mayor of the city of Santa Fe, Santa Fe province, Argentina,( 2011–2015/ 2015–2019).
Arthur Seligman
Arthur Seligman( June 14, 1871 – September 25, 1933) was an American businessman and politician.
He served in several offices in New Mexico, including mayor of Santa Fe and governor.
James Peter Davis
James Peter Davis (June 9, 1904 – March 4, 1988) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
He served as Bishop (later Archbishop) of San Juan (1943–64) and Archbishop of Santa Fe (1964-74).

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