Delfín B. Huergo

Dolphin Bonifacio Huergo.

Dauphin Bonifacio Huergo (* Salta, 1824 - † Buenos Aires, December 1886), Argentine lawyer, politician and diplomat, member of Congress that sanctioned the Argentine Constitution of 1853.

From his childhood he lived in Buenos Aires, where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1846, moving to Montevideo soon after. Shortly before the battle of Caseros he joined the secretary of the Great Army of Justo José de Urquiza. After the victory he accompanied him to his residence in Palermo (which had been Juan Manuel de Rosas) during the months that the entrerriano resided in Buenos Aires, as his secretary.

By influence of Urquiza was elected deputy to the Constitutive Congress of Santa Fe by the province of San Luis; he had never been there and possibly did not know any Puntan. He stood out defending the liberal positions with an easy and pleasant oratory. It called for the sanction "by acclamation" of article 29, which prohibited the granting of the "sum of power" or "extraordinary powers" and declared to those who did, traitors to the country.

In 1855 he participated in the signing of the peace treaties between the Argentine Confederation and the rebel state of Buenos Aires. Two years later he was sent as ambassador to Germany and Austria. After the battle of Pavón, President Bartholomew Miter appointed him Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs and later ambassador to Belgium.

He practiced his profession until 1876, when he became chairman of the capital committee of the Conciliation of the two dominant parties. He returned to Belgium as ambassador in 1883; that was his last public office.

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