The first President of Uruguay was José Fructuoso Rivera, who served from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1838 to 1839. Rivera was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 19, 1784. He was the son of Juan Antonio Rivera, a Spanish merchant, and MarÃa Francisca Ximénez, a Uruguayan woman of Spanish descent. Rivera had little formal education, but he learned to read and write at a young age. He also...
Pioneering the Presidency: Uruguay’s First Presidential Leader
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