born in La Guaira (Vargas State) March 10 de1786
died in New York (USA) on July 13, 1854
Surgeon, scientist, professor and rector of the University of Caracas, as well as politician, writer and president of Venezuela. He earned his doctoral degree in medicine in the year 1808. After finishing his medical studies he moved to Cumana, where he lived until 1812, during which he joined the Supreme Legislature of Cumana (1811) in the context of Venezuelan independence movement. By the royalist leader Juan Francisco Javier Cerveriz to Cumana, reduced prison all that had been part of Power Legislature, including Vargas, who was sent to the vaults of La Guaira, where he remained until early 1813 when he was released. Later that year sailed to Europe in order to improve their medical and surgical knowledge. Returning to America in 1819, settled in the island of Puerto Rico, as this place refugees were his brothers and his mother, who had fled the bloody war of independence in Venezuela.
In 1825, he decided to return and settle permanently in Venezuela. Since his arrival he immediately the exercise of their profession, also includes the University of Caracas as a teacher Anatomy. In 1827, after the reorganization of the university by the Liberator, was elected president, the first rector doctor Moreover, in addition to stabilize the income of the university, began to reorganize the various powers, create new courses, repairs physical premises, the organization of libraries, and link with other college campuses. Consequently, at the end of his tenure as rector, the university had become a model of administrative efficiency and in a prestigious research center.
In 1827 he founded the Medical Society of Caracas, which began practicing scientific meetings in the country. During this period also developed an extensive research in the area of \u200b\u200bbotany that led him to establish relationships with the notable men of science in the world. In 1829, to be founded in Caracas the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Vargas was appointed its first director. Upon completion of his rectory, Vargas devoted himself to education, founded in 1832 Professor of Surgery. Moreover, simultaneously with its scientific and educational activities, Vargas took part in political activities, attending the Constitutional Convention of 1830, which was very active in committee work in plenary sessions and many saved his voting opportunities to disagree with some statements of the Liberator, which nevertheless did not prevent him being named that year as executor of Bolivar.
In 1834, when he starts talking about the candidates for the presidential term (1835-1839), his name is mentioned with great emphasis especially in intellectual circles in Venezuela by 1835 the leading role of life policy was pursued by military leaders who took part in the Venezuelan Independence and the Bolivarian countries. For this reason, certain sectors of Venezuelan society is viewed with suspicion by many men tenían lógicas ambiciones políticas y de poder, trataron de reforzar el poder civil mediante la prestigiosa figura de José María Vargas. Fue electo presidente en las elecciones de 1834, voto ratificado por el Congreso el 6 de febrero de 1835 y se encargó de la presidencia el día 9. Posteriormente el 8 de julio de 1835 estalló la llamada Revolución de las Reformas que lo depuso del cargo y lo envió exiliado a Saint Thomas. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo fue restituido en la primera magistratura, luego que José Antonio Páez al mando del ejército constitucional derrotara a los rebeldes. Vargas continuó como Presidente de la República hasta abril de 1836, fecha en la que renunció irrevocablemente a dicho cargo.
After his experience as chief magistrate, he spent the rest of his life exclusively to education. He also chaired the commission in Santa Marta exhume the remains of freedom and leads to the homeland, a mission that was completed in December 1842. In August 1853, feeling ill, went to America, where he eventually died on July 13 next year in New York at age 68. In 1877, his ashes were brought to Caracas and buried in the National Cemetery on 27 April that year.
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