Ventura Blanco Encalada

Ventura Blanco y Calvo de Encalada (c. July 14, 1782[1] – June 13, 1856[2]) was a Chilean political figure.

Blanco Encalada was born in Chuquisaca, Bolivia, the son of Manuel Lorenzo Blanco Cicerón and of Mercedes Calvo de Encalada y Recabarren (a Spanish father and a Chilean mother).

During the Peninsular War, he supported Joseph Bonaparte and eventually was forced to emigrate to France.

He returned to Buenos Aires in 1816, and moved to Chile in 1820, where his younger brother Manuel was an important political figure who went on to become its first President.

Blanco Encalada spent his last years teaching at the Universidad de Chile, where he became Dean of the School of Humanities.