Salvador José de Muro, 2nd Marquis of Someruelos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1755
Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Date of Death: 12-Dec-1813
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Salvador José de Muro, 2nd Marquis of Someruelos
- Salvador José de Muro y Salazar, 2nd Marquis of Someruelos, in Spanish: Marqués de Someruelos, (Madrid, 6 October 1755 – 12 December 1813), was a Spanish military officer who served as a lieutenant general of infantry and a field marshal in the Spanish Army, as captain general of Cuba and governor of Havana, and as president of the Real Audiencia of Puerto Príncipe.Someruelos worked to continue the progressive policies of the former captain general of Cuba, Luis de Las Casas.
- He supported the introduction in 1803 of a smallpox vaccination program, and promoted public works such as the building of a theatre to encourage the arts, and of the Espada cemetery to improve sanitation.
- He encouraged social and cultural improvements in the country, and in 1800 and 1804 he was visited by the scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. Governor Someruelos, mindful of his duty to defend the Spanish colonies in the region of the Gulf of Mexico, rejected overtures by an expansionist United States to begin diplomatic negotiations when, during the height of the economic crisis in Cuba caused by the embargo of 1807, Thomas Jefferson sent Gen.
- James Wilkinson as an envoy to the Spanish authorities.
- Someruelos refused to meet him when he finally reached Havana in March 1809. Although he was appointed to his office by the Spanish Crown, Someruelos took the side of the criollo planters in Cuban politics, whose interests were often opposed to those of the administrative authorities in Metropolitan Spain.
- He brutally suppressed revolts by enslaved blacks on the island, and in 1812 ordered the hanging of the political activist José Antonio Aponte and fellow conspirators, as well as the public display of their decapitated heads.
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