Background
VILLEGAS PULIDO, Guillermo was born on July 28, 1854 in Barinas. Son of José Antonio Villegas and Nieves Pulido de Villegas.
VILLEGAS PULIDO, Guillermo was born on July 28, 1854 in Barinas. Son of José Antonio Villegas and Nieves Pulido de Villegas.
Commissioner in Caracas of the first Venezuelan census, 1873. Founder and director of the Colegio “Louisiana Paz” of Caracas, 1875. Mediator (under General Eleazar Urdaneta) in the revolution of 1879.
Special Venezuelan commissioner in Panamá, 1879.
Secretary of the Government of the Federal District, 1879— 1880. Secretary of the commander of the Venezuelan fleet in its attack on Ciudad Bolivar, 1880 secretary-general of the State of Guzmán Blanco, 1880.
Judge of the Civil Court (de Primera Instancia) of the Federal District, 1881. Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Bolivar, 1889.
Principal deputy to the National Congress from the State of Bolivar, 18901894.
From the Federal District, 19051911. Councilor for the State of Bolivar and secretary of the Federal Council, 1890-1892. Provisional president of Venezuela, 1892.
Secretary-general of the commander of the Second Military District, 1893.
Representative of the President of Venezuela in the State of Falcón, 1898. Accountant of the “Sala de Centralización,” 1899.
Attorney general of Venezuela, 1889-1909, 1913-1919, 19311934. Minister of Industry, 1900.
Provisional president of the State of Guá- rico, 1900-1901.
President of the State of Apure, 1903-1904. Commander-inchief of the state army of Guárico in the campaign of 1900. Member and president of the Federal Court, 1903.
Of the Court of Cassation, 1905.
President of the Supreme Court of the State of Apure, 1903. Venezuelan consul in Trinidad, 1906-1907.
Member of the Executive Committee for the Venezuelan centennial, 1909. President of the Chamber of Deputies, 1909.
Member of the Directive Board of the national census, 1910.
President of the Charter Committee (Comisión para formular el Reglamento) of the First Bolivarian Congress of Caracas, 1911. Special press liaison officer on the occasion of the visit of Secretary Knox to Venezuela, 1912. President ad interim of the Council of the Order of the Liberator of Venezuela, 1912— 1934.
Member of various commissions for the revision of Venezuelan legal codes, 1912.
Delegate to the American Institute of International Law, Havana, 1917. Member of the National Council of Education, 1924.
President of the National Commission of Social Sciences, 1924. Member of the Venezuelan Cooperative Committee for the Third Pan American Scientific Congress which was held in Lima, 1924.
President of the Faculty of Political Sciences and vicepresident of the University Council of the University of Caracas, 1930-1933.
Venezuelan delegate to the International Labor Conference of Geneva, 1931.
Ateneo of Caracas; Academia Venezolana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (ex-president). Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación of Madrid.
Married Margarita Méndez de Villegas. Children: José Antonio, Carmen, and Guillermo.