Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón

Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón studied at University of Seville. The recorded working language is Spanish. Positions recorded include President of the Council of Ministers and Ambassador of Spain to the Holy See. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III.

• Name — Joaquín Francisco Pacheco • Office — Prime Minister of Spain • Monarch — Isabella II • Term Start — 28 March 1847 • Term End — 12 September 1847 • Predecessor — Carlos Martínez de Irujo • Successor — Florencio García Goyena • Office2 — Prosecutor of the Supreme Court • Term Start2 — 29 July 1843 • Term End2 — 2 July 1844 • Predecessor2 — Eugenio Manuel Cuervo & Pío Laborda • Successor2 — Pedro Jiménez Navarro • Term Start3 — 14 January 1845 • Term End3 — 28 March 1847 • Predecessor3 — Pedro Jiménez Navarro • Successor3 — Lorenzo Arrazola y García • Office4 — Seat b of the Real Academia Española • Term Start4 — 1847 • Term End4 — 8 October 1865 • Predecessor4 — Seat established • Successor4 — José Selgas • Born — 22 February 1808 • Birthplace — Écija, Spain • Died — 8 October 1865 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Birth Name — Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón • Party — Moderate Party • Alma Mater — University of Seville Asunción College • Honorific Prefix — The Most Excellent

On 22 February 1808, Pacheco was born in Écija as son to a notary of the city council. He studied humanities at Asunción College in Córdoba and in 1823 went to the University of Seville, where he studied jurisprudence, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in law in 1829. There developed a lifelong friendship with fellow student, Juan Donoso Cortés. They both frequented the political and literary circles.

In 1832, he moved to Madrid working as a lawyer. It was at this time he had literary and journalistic inclinations, founding the newspaper La Abeja in 1834. He used the platform as a way to express views of moderantismo. He also collaborated with other newspapers such as El Artista and El Español. • Illustration — Pacheco portrayed in Los Poetas contemporáneos by Antonio María Esquivel, 1846 In the world of law, with Juan Bravo Murillo, he founded El Boletín de Jurisprudencia y Legislación. In 1844, he held the chair of Constitutional Political Law at the Ateneo de Madrid, previously holding those of Legislation (1836–1838) and Criminal Law (1839–1840).

Pacheco was a liberal, being a member of the Moderate Party since 1834, and in 1840 declaring before parliament, From 1837 to 1858, he held a seat in the Congress of Deputies, representing the Province of Córdoba. In 1858, he was elected senator. On 28 March 1847, he was appointed prime minister, a position he held for 5 months. His management was limited to retaining office as the Cortes Generales held an opposing majority and he received the animosity of the king consort, Francisco de Asis as well as the royal clique. He returned to the Spanish Government as Minister of State, with Baldomero Espartero in 1854, and Alejandro Mon in 1864. He served as ambassador to Mexico from 1860 until his expulsion in January 1861. Upon his arrival in Veracruz City, he traveled to Mexico City, at the time occupied by Miguel Miramón, to present his status. He recognized Miramón, lending him prestige. Public opinion was negative towards Pacheco and when the capital returned to federal forces in 1861, he received an order of expulsion, certified by Benito Juárez, from the Secretary of State and Foreign Relations on 12 January. He was also ambassador to London (1856), Rome (1854 and 1864), as well as France, prosecutor of the Supreme Court (1843 and 1847), a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, Royal Academy of History, Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was elected president of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, as well as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1865, being unable to serve in the latter case. On 8 October 1865, Pacheco died as a part of the 1863–1875 cholera pandemic.

Sources:

• Catón (1828) • A la señora doña... (1831) • Oda a la amnistía (1833), a neoclassical poem • Una noche (1833) • Meditación (1834)

• Italia (1857)

• Alfredo (1835), a romantic drama • Los Infantes de Lara (1836), a historical drama • Bernardo del Carpio (1848), a drama

• “Historia de las Cortes de 1837” (1839), in Madrid Magazine