Francisco Tosta García

Francisco Tosta García . He was a politician , Venezuelan soldier and presidential candidate. He also stood out as a writer of manners, historian , journalist and novelist.

Summary

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• 1 Biographical summary
  • 1 Political life
  • 2 Life as a writer
  • 3 Death
• 2 Source

Biographical summary

He was born on January 1 , 1846 in the town of Charallave, Miranda State , Venezuela . His parents were Alejandro Tosta, a merchant, and Manuela García. Despite being born in Charallave, he spent his childhood in Caracas. The solid humanistic knowledge that he developed throughout his life was acquired self-taught . Friend and supporter of Antonio Guzmán Blanco, he entered Caracas with him in April 1870 .

Political life

Deputy for the Guárico state ( 1880 ), governor of the Federal District in July 1880 , he was the organizer of the Guzmán Blanco state in 1881 and the head of the Militias of the Federal District in 1881 . He was later president of the Chamber of Deputies in the sessions of 1882 , 1883 , 1884 , 1885 and 1886 , as well as president of the newly created state of Guzmán Blanco in 1883 and deputy for the Federal District in 1886 . President of the commission of Deputies for the constitution of the 1888 Congress , he supported the presidential candidacy of General Joaquín Crespo , being arrested on June 21 and remaining 2 months in La Rotunda.

Although he is a friend of Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl , after his release he decided to stay away from public life from 1888 to 1892 . After the triumph of the Legalist Revolution in 1893 , he was elected deputy for the great state of Los Andes to the National Constituent Assembly, in which he acted as secretary. Extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Venezuela in the Netherlands in 1894 , he was governor of the Federal District in 1895 and Minister of Development ( 1896 ). Candidate for the presidency of the Republic ( 1897 ), he appeared as an opposition senator during the presidency of Ignacio Andrade in 1898 . In 1901 he was representative of the state of Miranda in the National Constituent Assembly and vice president of the same. Senator for Carabobo ( 1904 ); He was representative of Venezuela in the Bolivarian Congress meeting in Caracas in 1911 and member of the Government Council 1913 .

Life as a writer

The last years of his life were dedicated to the National Academy of History of which he was elected a full member in 1906 and which he joined on March 25 of that same year. His incorporation work dealt with the Congress of Panama . As a journalist, he was editor of La Causa Nacional in 1889 , in the company of Eduardo Blanco and El Pabellón Amarillo ( Caracas in 1878 ). He also wrote zarzuelas such as: Don Pantaleón and El oro de Bascona , arranged for the Spanish stage.

As a writer he used the pseudonym “K Lendas.” He left important works as a writer of manners. Author of the Venezuelan Episodes influenced by the National Episodes of Benito Pérez Galdós , he stopped in the chronicle to tell the history of Venezuela from April 19 , 1810 . In total he wrote three novels:

• Don Secundino in Paris
• Jacobilla
• Memoirs of a lifer.