Joaquín Campino

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

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

[1] He graduated as a lawyer from the Royal University of San Felipe (1812).

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.