Jacinta Parejo
| Jacinta Parejo | |
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| First Lady of Venezuela | |
| President | Joaquín Crespo |
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In role April 26, 1884 – September 15, 1886 |
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| Preceded by | Ana Teresa Ibarra Urbaneja |
| Succeeded by | Ana Teresa Ibarra Urbaneja |
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In role October 7, 1892 – February 28, 1898 |
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| Preceded by | Isabel González Esteves |
| Succeeded by | María Isabel Sosa Saa |
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| Born |
August 16, 1845 Parapara, Guárico |
| Died | April 16, 1914 (aged 68) Caracas |
| Nationality | Venezuela |
| Spouse(s) | Saturnino Silva Joaquín Crespo |
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Jacinta Parejo de Crespo (better known as Misia Jacinta) (August 16, 1845–April 16, 1914) was a Venezuelan public figure and the First Lady of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and from 1892 to 1898 during the presidential terms of Joaquín Crespo. According to Venezuelatuya, Parejo was the first woman in Venezuela to intercede in official policy in a very involved fashion. She held government meetings, worked on projects of the head of state, and at times interceded on the behalf of political prisoners. Her second husband was killed in battle in 1898 and Parejo afterwards became the defender of their family's legacy.VenezuelaTuya states that the legal succession of Parejo and Crespo was "one of the biggest legal disputes of the early twentieth century in Venezuela."
Jacinta Parejo de Crespo was born on August 16, 1845 to Juan Parejo and Maria Josefa Parejo in Guárico. on August 8, 1861, she married General Saturnino Silva. Silva died in combat during the Federal War. In the aftermath of the death, she met General Joaquín Crespo. Crespo, like her, was native to Guarico and was as well a confidant to then Vice President to General Antonio Guzman Blanco. She and Crespo married on September 18, 1864. She remained married to Crespo during his subsequent positions in the Venezuelan government.
She first served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1884 until 1886. According to Venezuelatuya, Parejo was the first woman in Venezuela to intercede in official policy in such a fashion. She held meetings, worked on projects of the head of state, and at times interceded on the behalf of political prisoners to Crespo.
According to Venezuelatuya, Crespo relied greatly on her advice and confidence during his career, and asserts that in 1892 she "made up for the lack of committees or revolutionary juntas in the clandestine organization of the Legalista Revolution." While Crespo campaigned with the military in remote areas of Venezuela, Parejo lived in Caracas and contributed to the campaign through secret correspondence and shipping items to officers at the battlefront. On June 17, 1892, Parejo's husband overthrew President Raimundo Andueza Palacio. Following the resignation of subsequent president Guillermo Tell Villegas during the crisis of the ,Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido was selected by the Federal Council as the provisional president of Venezuela in August 1892. After Crespo established himself as president by force in October 1892, Villegas Pulido left the country. She again became First Lady on October 7, 1892.
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