Próspero Fernández Oreamuno
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Próspero Fernández Oreamuno 🇨🇷

Próspero Fernández Oreamuno (Known as "Don Próspero")
President of Costa Rica (1882–1885), Division General, Liberal Reformer
Born 1834-07-18 🇨🇷 San José, Costa Rica
Passed Away 1885-03-12 Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Lifespan 50 years old
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Liberal President of Costa Rica who secularized cemeteries, instituted civil marriage, expelled the Jesuits, and mobilized the army to defend Costa Rican sovereignty against Justo Rufino Barrios.

Biographical Record

Próspero Fernández Oreamuno was born in San José on July 18, 1834. A career military officer who distinguished himself during the 1856–1857 Campaign against William Walker's filibuster army, Fernández rose to the rank of Division General.

Elected President in 1882, he spearheaded the secularization of the Costa Rican state: instituting the 1884 Liberal Laws that secularized public cemeteries, established civil marriage and divorce, and ended ecclesiastical monopolies over education. When Guatemalan strongman Justo Rufino Barrios declared military unification of Central America, Fernández mobilized the nation, dying in the field in Atenas on March 12, 1885.

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General Cemetery of San José (Cementerio General)
San José, Costa Rica
GPS: 9.9320, -84.0880
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