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Tomás Benjamín Aceval Marín
Tomás
Benjamín Aceval
Marín
was a
Paraguayan
statesman, educator and diplomat.
Career
He spent most of his youth in Argentina, where he finished his law studies in 1873.
1874 he was
minister of justice
in
the Government
of
Juan Bautista Gill
.
From to he was
Minister Plenipotentiary
in special
mission
in Washington, D.C. and represented
the government
of
Higinio Uriarte
in the
Chaco Boreal
dispute
with Argentina, after the
Paraguayan War
, to the
President
of the U.S.A. Rutherford B. Hayes. In his
arbitration
, Hayes awarded the region to
Paraguay
.
From March 1879 to 1886 he was rector of the
Colegio Nacional de la Capital
.
In 1886, he was
foreign minister
in the
Government
of
Patricio Escobar
.
On he negotiated with the Bolivian plenipotentiary
Isaac
Tamayo, the abortive Aceval-Tamayo Treaty.
In
1894
he was
Minister of Finance
.
He died on a
Bubonic plague
that hit
Asuncion
.
Benjamín
Aceval
a town in the
Department
of
Presidente Hayes
in Paraguay is named in his honor.
