Miguel Duffy

Miguel Antonio Duffy Taaffe
Personal details
Born 1845
Carmen de Areco, Buenos Aires
Died 22 July 1925
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentine
Occupation Government, farmer
Profession politician
Religion Catholicism

Miguel Duffy (1845–1925) was an Argentine politician, Intendant of Carmen de Areco, in the Buenos Aires province.[1]

Biography

Miguel Antonio Duffy was born in Carmen de Areco, was the son of John Duffy (born in Longford and Elizabeth Taaffe, born in Westmeath. He was married in the Parish Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Areco with Francisca de Magallanes, daughter of a renowned family.[2] His wife was related to María Ceballos Blanco wife Joaquín Canaveri, Intendant of Areco in 1856–1857.[3]

Duffy served as president of municipality in 1874, 1878–1879, 1881–1886 and 1893–94.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Memoria del Departamento de Escuelas al Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
  2. ↑ Los irlandeses en la Argentina: su actuación y descendencia, Part 1, Eduardo A. Coghlan
  3. ↑ Registro oficial de la provincia de Buenos Aires
  4. ↑ Becoming Gauchos Ingleses: Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature, Edmundo Murray
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