José Andrés Pacheco de Melo

José Andrés Pacheco de Melo (17 October 1779 – approx.

Pacheco de Melo was born in Salta and studied there alongside Martín Güemes.

He entered the seminary of Our Lady of Loreto in Córdoba and was ordained in 1801 by Bishop Moscoso of Tucumán.

Pacheco de Melo became a priest to the Chichas [es], an indigenous people in the present south and southwest of Bolivia and far north of Argentina.

After the Congress moved to Buenos Aires, Pacheco de Melo chaired it in 1818.