Máximo Santos

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Máximo Santos
President of Uruguay
In office 1 March 1882 – 1 March 1886
Preceded by	Francisco Antonino Vidal
Succeeded by	Francisco Antonino Vidal
In office 24 May 1886 – 18 November 1886
Preceded by	Francisco Antonino Vidal
Succeeded by	Máximo Tajes
Personal details
Born	15 April 1847 Pando, Uruguay
Died	19 May 1889 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Colorado Party

Máximo Benito Santos Barbosa^[1] (15 April 1847 – 19 May 1889) was a Uruguayan political and military figure.

Santos pursued a career in the military, prior to serving as Minister for War from 1880 to 1882. He was a member of the Colorado Party (Uruguay).

In 1882 Miguel Alberto Flangini Ximénez, who served briefly as acting President of Uruguay, stepped down from office.

Succeeding acting President Flangini, Santos served as President of Uruguay from 1882 until 1886.

Among Santos's lasting acts as President was the creation of the Flores Department in the interior of the country, named after assassinated former President of Uruguay General Venancio Flores, who hailed from the territory incorporated as a department.

He also in a measure repaired relations with Paraguay.

However, his administration was also widely criticized for failure to root out corruption.

Santos was succeeded as president by Francisco Antonino Vidal in 1886. Santos served as the President of the Senate of Uruguay in 1886.^[2]

Subsequently, after relinquishing presidential office in 1886, Santos returned to exercise presidential powers for a number of months in 1886.

Santos was succeeded as president by his Colorado Party colleague Máximo Tajes, with whom, however, he had poor relations. Tajes was still exercising his presidential office at Santos's death.

Subsequent to the relinquishing of his presidential office for the second time, Santos travelled in Europe, and was unable to return to Uruguay.

Still aged in his early 40s, Santos died in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1889.

Santos' magnificent residence in downtown Montevideo nowadays is the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Uruguay and is known as Palacio Santos. His country estate now houses the Museo de la Memoria, a state-owned museum dedicated to the victims of the Uruguayan dictatorship.

• Colorado Party (Uruguay)#Earlier History
• Politics of Uruguay
• Miguel Alberto Flangini Ximénez#Interim President of Uruguay
• Máximo Tajes#President of Uruguay
• Flores Department#History and cultural heritage

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