Evaristo Gómez Sánchez y Benavides (1826 – 1893) was a Peruvian politician,ómezSá lawyer and diplomat. He was Minister of Government, Police, and Public Works (1864 – 1865).
Biography
Sánchez studied at the San Carlos Convictory and received his law degree in 1846. In 1850 he became a rapporteur of the Superior Court of Arequipa. In 1851 he was elected deputy for Camaná, so he returned to live in Lima. That same year he was sent to the Empire of Brazil as minister plenipotentiary to carry out the exchange of ratifications of the Convention on Boundaries & Commerce and River Navigation recently signed in Lima. Upon returning to Peru, he resumed his parliamentary function and attended the legislature of 1853. After this, he assumed the role of rector of the San Carlos Convictory.
He was a member of the Constituent Congress of 1860 for the province of Anta between July and November 1860 during the third government of Ramón Castilla. This congress drafted the Constitution of 1860, the seventh that governed the country and the one that has been in force the longest since it lasted, with some intervals, until 1920. After the constitution was issued, the congress remained as an ordinary congress until 1863 and was elected again in 1864.
In 1860 he was part of the commission in charge of drafting the Penal Codes and Procedures in Criminal Matters. During the government of General Juan Antonio Pezet he was appointed Minister of Government, in the midst of an international crisis caused by the arrogant presence of the Spanish Squadron in South American waters. He exercised this ministry from October 14, 1864, until November 5, 1865, when the rebellion against Pezet led by Colonel Mariano Ignacio Prado took place. Together with the overthrown president, he took refuge on the British ship Shear Water, anchored in Callao.
Exiled, he returned to Peru in 1868, being elected senator for the department of Arequipa that same year. He was a member of the permanent committee of Congress (1868–1872). He was re-elected in 1872 and served as senator until 1876.
At the start of the Pacific War he was accredited as plenipotentiary minister in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Asunción, between 1880 and 1882.
See also
Peruvian Constitution of 1860
General Juan Antonio Pezet
Colonel Mariano Ignacio Prado
References
Basadre Grohmann, Jorge: Historia de la República del Perú (1822–1933), Tomo 5. Editada por la Empresa Editora El Comercio S. A. Lima, 2005. ISBN 9972-205-67-3 (V.5). Tauro del Pino, Alberto: Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Tercera Edición. Tomo 7, FER/GUZ. Lima, PEISA, 2001. ISBN 9972-40-156-1 Vargas Ugarte, Rubén: Historia General del Perú. Tomo IX. La República (1844–1879). Segunda Edición. Editor Carlos Milla Batres. Lima, Perú, 1984.