Joaquín Campino

Joaquín Campino Salamanca (February 16, 1788, in La Serena – April 20, 1860, in Santiago) was a Chilean lawyer.

Biography He was the son of Andrés Campino y Erazo and Magdalena Salamanca and did not marry nor have children.

He graduated as a lawyer from the Royal University of San Felipe (1812). He was Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs of the Directory of 1823, 1825 and 1826 (Directory Council). In 1824 and 1826 he was deputy for the province of Coquimbo.

On December 22, 1824, he was named President of the Congress. He made his name in politics and in letters as a journalist. In 1827 he participated in the so-called Campino Uprising and was minister plenipotentiary in the United States, and in 1830 in Mexico. He returned to Chile and in 1840 he was a substitute deputy for Elqui Province and in 1846–1849 he was a substitute for the department of Rere.