Background
The firstborn son of Manuel José María Derqui y García and his wife Ramona Rodríguez y Orduña, Santiago Derqui studied at the Córdoba National University, receiving a degree in law in 1831.
The firstborn son of Manuel José María Derqui y García and his wife Ramona Rodríguez y Orduña, Santiago Derqui studied at the Córdoba National University, receiving a degree in law in 1831.
National University of Córdoba.
He was featured on the 10 Australes note, which is now obsolete. At the university he was professor of law, then of philosophy, and finally vice-dean He was first assistant and then Minister of the government of Corrientes Province under José María Paz.
Justo José de Urquiza named him "Business administrator" and sent him to Paraguay on a foreign business mission.
He became deputy for Córdoba Province. In 1854 Urquiza named him head of the Ministry of Justice, Education and Public Instruction, where he worked for the six years of Urquiza"s mandate, pushing forward the still-emerging nation.
He was an active Freemason. After Urquiza"s mandate, Derqui became constitutional president
Being from Córdoba and not from Buenos Aires, it was expected that under his rule the continuous revolts of the provincial governments against the federal government would education
Derqui accepted the revised national constitution with the changes that would favour Buenos Aires, and named the country República Argentina. This and other unpopular policies towards the rest of the country provoked a general discontent in the provinces that led to the Battle of Pavón. Unable to maintain authority, Derqui resigned and fled to Montevideo.
While in exile, Bartolomé Mitre helped him to go back to his wife"s native city of Corrientes, where he would die a few years later.