Maza, Manuel Vicente de (1779–1839)
Maza, Manuel Vicente de (1779–1839)
Manuel Vicente de Maza (b. 1779; d. 27 June 1839), Argentine patriot and public official. Maza studied in his native Buenos Aires and in Chile, where he became a lawyer. After being imprisoned at Lima in 1810 as a patriot sympathizer, he returned in 1815 to Buenos Aires, where he held a number of government positions. A friend of Juan Manuel de Rosas, he was a Federalist, and in 1829 he was deported by the Unitarist regime of Juan Lavalle, returning the same year. However, he was a moderate who, as acting governor of Buenos Aires in 1834–1835, dismissed some of Rosas's strongest military supporters. He resigned the governorship in the aftermath of the assassination of Juan Facundo Quiroga, but continued to serve in the legislature and as special judge of those accused of the murder. In 1839, after his son was involved in a plot against Rosas, Maza was assassinated in Buenos Aires.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
John Lynch, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829–1852 (1981), pp. 159-162, 171-173, 204.
Jacinto R. Yaben, Biografías argentinas y sudamericanas, vol. 3 (1939), pp. 721-723.
Additional Bibliography
Śbato, Hilda, and Alberto Rodolfo Lettieri. La vida política en la Argentina del siglo XIX: Armas, votos y voces. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.