Domingo Sosa

Biography

Colonel Domingo Sosa (1788 – May 1866) was an Argentine soldier and later an army colonel who took part in the wars of independence and in the Argentine civil war. He later became a politician, serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Buenos Aires, and as a member of the province's 1854 constitutional convention. He was the first Afro-Argentine to be elected to such high offices.

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