Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1853)

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

19th-century Uruguayan revolutionary, general, and political figure (1784–1853)

Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay.

List of presidents of Uruguay

Uruguay is a presidential republic in which the president is both the head of state and head of government. The following is a list of all the people who have held the office of President of Uruguay since 6 November 1830, with the exception of those who held the office of…