Rafael Seijas

Rafael Seijas
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
In office 9 August 1861 – 1 January 1862
President	José Antonio Páez
In office 9 December 1865 – 24 July 1867
President	Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
In office 3 October 1865 – 5 March 1867
President	Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
In office 15 June 1878 – 5 August 1878
President	Antonio Guzmán Blanco
In office 30 April 1881 – 27 April 1884
President	Antonio Guzmán Blanco
In office 20 January 1890 – 19 March 1890
President	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl

Rafael Seijas was a Venezuelan political figure. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela multiple terms, holding the position as of 1882.^[1] In 1883 and 1884, he oversaw the process of drawing maps between the boundaries of British Guiana and Venezuela, working with a Colonel Mansfield until April 1884.^[2] He authored a series of papers in 1898, again on the arbitration of the Venezuela and British Guiana borders.^[3]

See also

• List of ministers of foreign affairs of Venezuela

References

1. Ewell, Judith (1996). Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820317830.
2. Correspondence in Relation to the Boundary Controversy Between Great Britain and Venezuela: Being a Reprint of Senate Executive Document No. 226, Fiftieth Congress, First Session, and Senate Document No. 31, Fifty-fourth Congress, First Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1896.
3. Papers. Evening Post Job Printing House. 1898. seijas.

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Political offices
Preceded by Jesús María Morales Marcano	60th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 9 August 1861 – 1 January 1862	Succeeded by Pedro José Rojas
Preceded by Antonio Guzmán Blanco	70th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 9 December 1865 – 24 July 1867	Succeeded by Jesús María Sistiaga
Preceded by Antonio Guzmán Blanco	72nd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 3 October 1865 – 5 March 1867	Succeeded by Jesús María Sistiaga
Preceded by Sebastián Casañas	95th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 15 June 1878 – 5 August 1878	Succeeded by Trinidad Célis Ávila
Preceded by Pedro José Saavedra	104th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 30 April 1881 – 27 April 1884	Succeeded by Vicente Amengual
Preceded by Pascual Casanova	115th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 20 January 1890 – 19 March 1890	Succeeded by Marco Antonio Saluzzo