Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano (2 October 1790 in Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata – 1861) in Spain was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat who served Spain at diplomatic posts in the United States and Mexico and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1853 and 1854.
In 1843, Calderón de la Barca was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[1] From 1844 to 1853, he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States in Washington, D.C. under Prime Ministers Ramon Maria Narvaez and American presidents John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore.
'The government struck me,' he said, 'as strictly honest, and your statesmen as remarkable for their public spirit, integrity, and incorruptibility.
In Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Calderón de la Barca is played by Tomas Milian.