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Higinio Uriarte

Paraguayan politician (1843-1909)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ26554 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Higinio Uriarte y García del Barrio (11 January 1843 in Asunción – 21 April 1909) was a Paraguayan politician and President from 12 April 1877 to 25 November 1878.

He was Juan Bautista Gill's cousin. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, and was elected as Vice President 1874. After Gill was assassinated, Uriarte became the acting President for the remainder of Gill's four-year-term. He was Minister of Finance of Paraguay from 1887 to 1889.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Higinio Uriarte” is paraguayan politician (1843-1909). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Higinio, Uriarte and Paraguayan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1843, 1909, 1877, 1878—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Higinio, Uriarte and Paraguayan is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “paraguayan politician (1843-1909)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26554. The first chronological checks are 1843, 1909, 1877 and 1878.

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This entry incorporates text from “Higinio Uriarte” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.