predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
'' position created '' francisco de la lastra 10 june 1868 guatemala city , guatemala brooklyn , new york 7 february 1786 interim supreme director of chile march 7 , 1814 mercedes trucíos antonio de irisarri.jpg antonio josé de irisarri
 march 14 , 1814 antonio josé de irisarri
antonio josé de irisarri

antonio josé de irisarri alonso -lrb- february 7 , 1786 -- june 10 , 1868 -rrb- , was a guatemalan statesman , journalist and interim supreme director of chile -lrb- 1814 -rrb- .
he is considered one of the fathers of chilean journalism together with fr .
camilo henríquez .
irisarri was born in guatemala city , the son of juan bautista de irisarri and of maría de la paz alonso .
he studied in his native city and in europe , from whence he was recalled back to his home after the death of his father in 1805 .
in 1809 he visited chile , and having married mercedes trucíos y larraín , an heiress there , took up his residence in that country and joined with enthusiasm the movement for independence in 1810 .
he had charge of important public offices during the struggle for liberty , including the command of the national guard and the civil and military government of the province of santiago , and from march 7 to 14 , 1814 , he was temporarily in charge of the supreme direction of the nation .
in 1818 he was appointed minister of government and foreign affairs by bernardo o'higgins , and in october of the same year he went to buenos aires as minister .
at the end of 1819 he was sent to europe to negotiate the recognition of chilean independence by england and france -lrb- which he was not able to obtain . -rrb-
while at london he negotiated a loan of # 1,000,000 -lrb- the first foreign debt of chile . -rrb-
he was sent to central america in 1827 as minister for chile , and in 1837 as plenipotentiary to peru and private adviser to admiral manuel blanco during the war of the confederation .
after the chilean army was forced to sign the treaty of paucarpata on november 17 , 1837 , the scandal was gigantic .
irisarri refused to return to chile , was tried `` in absentia '' for high treason , and sentence to death .
irisarri wisely never returned to chile .
he was minister of guatemala and salvador to ecuador from 1839 till 1845 , and in 1846-1848 to colombia , but resigned , and went to curaçao in 1849 , and in 1850 to the united states , where he resided till his death .
the governments of guatemala and salvador appointed him , in 1855 , their minister to washington , and for a long time he was dean of the diplomatic corps .
irisarri continued his literary work in the united states , and was generally esteemed for his knowledge , genial character , and polished manners .
irisarri was chief editor of the `` semanario republicano de chile '' in santiago in 1813 ; of `` el duende '' in the same city in 1818 ; of `` el censor americano '' in london in 1820 ; of `` el guatemalteco '' in guatemala in 1828 ; of `` la verdad desnuda , '' `` la balanza , '' and `` el correo '' in guayaquil in 1839-1843 ; of `` la concordia '' in quito in 1844-1845 ; of '' nosotros , '' `` orden y libertad , '' and `` el cristiano errante '' in bogota in 1846-1847 ; and of `` el revisor '' in curaçao in 1849 , the publication of which he continued in new york .
he also published `` la defensa de la historia critica del asesinato cometido en la persona del gran mariseal de ayacucho '' -lrb- quito , 1845 -rrb- ; `` memoria biografica del arzobispo mosquera '' -lrb- bogota , 1848 -rrb- ; a collection of his satirical poems , a novel , `` cuestiones filologicas , '' and several pamphlets .
he died in brooklyn , new york , on june 10 , 1868 .
in 1973 guatemala honoured him with the institution of an `` order of antonio josé de irisarri '' .
