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- Name Isaac José Pardo
Sex Male
Age 63 años
Birth Date 1824
Birthplace Hamburgo, Alemania
Event Type Death
Event Date 5 de agosto de 1887
Event Place Libertador, Distrito Capital, Venezuela
Certificate Number 93
Early Venezuelan life
Contributed By J JahnLatouche
Isaac Pardo boarded the George Andrea brig on March 10, 1841, arrived at La Guaira on March 12,1841 and disembarked the following day, a boat took him to "Colombian land"; where his brother Michel was waiting for him, he imagined having reached the Gran Colombia de Bolívar, he was then 17 years old and did not know that it had already dissolved. On February 3rd,1846 he adopted Venezuelan nationality, the Naturalization Letter is signed by the President of the Republic, General Carlos Soublette, with whom the new Venezuelan arrived to have an almost filial relationship. He was also a great friend of General José Antonio Páez.
On June 21st,1846 he was baptized Catholic in the Cathedral of Caracas (mixed marriage was not allowed here) and the next day he married María de Jesús Monsanto, daughter of Antonio Méndez Monsanto and Lucía Rivas de León, who when he married use the Monsanto surname; presumably for being the most Israelite and significant (Monsanto, Monte Santo, Zión, Jerusalem.) of their surnames.
He founded a trading house in Caracas, Pardo & Cía, with a branch in La Guaira and a bank; the first Banco de Venezuela, whose acts are currently in the archives of the Central Bank of Venezuela. On two occasions he was commissioned by the government to be in charge of the minting of currency, the first and second issuance of bolivars, previously in Venezuela the legal tender was the peso, he was part of the eventful beginnings of the telegraph, initiated by the Spanish engineer Manuel de Montufar, service of which he was Director. He also participated in the installation of the telephone, in 1858 he was one of the promoters of the Caracas Theater, located between the corners of Ibarras to Veroes, the most important until the founding of the Guzmán Blanco Theater, today known as the Alfredo Sadel Municipal Theater.
He was Director of Immigration and in the years 1873 and 1881 he was part of the Census Board, without having studied law, he was a very knowledgeable man in legal matters and, when the Codification Commission was created by Guzmán Blanco to update the archaic Legal Codes he was included to work on the drafting of the Commercial Code. Due to his personal friendship with Guzmán Blanco, he lent the government of Venezuela large amounts of money that he could never collect and died poorly, then decades later the President of the Republic, Carlos Andrés Pérez, decreed the expiration of the debt and ended the legal actions of the heirs destined to the collection of said sums.
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1824 - 1887 (62 años)
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