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Vilca as Secretary of Defense
Nouvelle Alexandrie

Who's Who of Nouvelle Alexandrie
Full Name Rawa Vilca
Titles & Offices 1st Duke of Salcedo
Count of Choquequirao
Vice-President of the Government (1744 AN to 1749 AN)
Birth Date 12.II.1648 AN
Birth Place Parap, Wechua Nation
Death Date 3.XI.1753 AN (105 AN years)
Death Place Parap, Wechua Nation
Spouse Chaska Rimachi
Children Amaru Vilca Rimachi
Tupaq Vilca
T'ika Vilca Rimachi
Family House of Vilca
Occupation Soldier, politician, statesman
Military Service Wechua regional forces
Military Rank General
Political Affiliation Federal Humanist Party
formerly National & Humanist Club, Coalition for Federal Progress
Known For Vice-President of the Government; founder of the House of Vilca
Languages Wechua, Alexandrian
Residence Parap, Wechua Nation
National Origin Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie
Citizenship(s) Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie

Rawa Vilca, 1st Duke of Salcedo and Count of Choquequirao (b. 12.II.1648 AN, d. 3.XI.1753 AN), was a New Alexandrian soldier, politician, and statesman of the Wechua Nation. A general and veteran of the Wechua Spring before entering public life, he sat in the Council of State for the Federal Humanist Party (FHP) across more than five decades, rising to the office of Vice-President of the Government between 1744 AN and 1749 AN.

Vilca first led the National & Humanist Club in the politics of the Wechua Nation, sat for the city of Parap, and was a co-founder of the Coalition for Federal Progress at the formation of the federation. Within the government of Nouvelle Alexandrie he held the portfolios of Defense, Culture and Sports, and Social Security and National Solidarity in turn, and served as ambassador to Çakaristan. Raised from Count of Choquequirao to Duke of Salcedo in the course of his career, he was the founding head of the House of Vilca, a Wechua noble house of the federal aristocracy.

Early life and military career

Vilca was born on 12.II.1648 AN in the city of Parap, in the highlands of the Wechua Nation. He came of age amid the Wechua Spring and the collapse and Restoration of the Wechua Nation, serving as a young soldier before rising through the Wechua regional forces to the rank of general in the years that followed.[1] His standing as a soldier carried him into politics in the newly restored Wechua Nation.

Wechua politics

Vilca entered elective politics as leader of the National & Humanist Club, a humanist party of the Wechua Nation, holding the seat of Parap in the Council of the Wechua Nation. The Club returned nineteen Royal Councillors at the election of 1673 AN, grew to thirty-one seats and third place nationally by 1678 AN, and held twenty-nine seats at the election of 1683 AN.[2]

As the states of the region moved toward federation, Vilca was among the co-founders of the Coalition for Federal Progress, serving as its Finance Chairman.[3] The humanist current he represented was absorbed into the Federal Humanist Party, under whose banner he sat for the Wechua Nation for the remainder of his federal career.

Federal career

Over a career in the Council of State that spanned more than five decades, Vilca held three federal portfolios in turn before reaching the deputy leadership of the government in his final years of office.

Secretary of Defense

As Secretary of Defense of Nouvelle Alexandrie between 1693 AN and 1698 AN, in the National Unity government, Vilca was styled Count of Choquequirao and later Duke of Salcedo. He presented the defense estimates to the assembly and oversaw the department during a period of active operations, issuing statements on the campaigns against Euran militia forces around 1698 AN.[4]

Culture, sport, and national solidarity

On the return of an FHP majority under Gerhardt Eugen Seydlitz in 1699 AN, Vilca moved to the portfolio of Culture and Sports.[5] He went on to hold the portfolio of Social Security and National Solidarity across several administrations, becoming closely identified with the department over more than three decades of federal service.[6] In 1719 AN he was appointed to the Water Crisis Committee and chaired its Information and Education Subcommittee.[7]

In 1717 AN, following a treaty of cooperation, Vilca was appointed ambassador of Nouvelle Alexandrie to Çakaristan.[8] The FHP valued his endorsement in its campaigns; his backing was credited with a 2.1 percent rise in the party's support at the general election of 1718 AN.[9]

Vice-Premiership

In 1744 AN, Premier Juan Pablo Jimenez appointed Vilca Vice-President of the Government, the deputy head of the federal government, in a cabinet reshuffle that replaced the retiring Felipe de la Vega. His military background and long standing in Wechua regional politics were cited as the grounds for the appointment.[10] He held the office until 1749 AN, recording his vote as Vice-President on the ratification of the Alexandrium Treaty in that year, and was succeeded as Vice-President by Fred Strong.[11]

Ennoblement and the House of Vilca

Vilca was ennobled as Count of Choquequirao early in his career and was later raised to the dukedom of Salcedo, the title by which he is most often known and one that carried a grandeeship of Nouvelle Alexandrie.[12] As a Grandee he was styled The Most Excellent Lord and ranked among the achulla mintasqa, the senior hereditary nobility of the Wechua Nation and the former Alexandrian aristocracy. He was the founding head of the House of Vilca, which took its seat at Parap and entered the first rank of the federal aristocracy through his career.

Personal life and death

Vilca married Chaska Rimachi, a Wechua noblewoman, who became Duchess of Salcedo. The couple had three children: Amaru Vilca Rimachi, who succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Salcedo; Tupaq Vilca, later Chief Coordinator of the Mountain Solidarity Associations; and a daughter, T'ika Vilca Rimachi. Born on 12.II.1648 AN, Vilca died at Parap on 3.XI.1753 AN at the age of 105, some four years after leaving the Vice-Presidency. He was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son, and the headship of the house passed within a few years to his grandson, Huamán Vilca, 3rd Duke of Salcedo.[13]

Legacy

Vilca's career carried the Federal Humanist Party from its origins in Wechua regional politics into the federal government, and established the House of Vilca in the federal nobility.

See also

References

  1. ^ Wechua general election, 1673; Wechua general election, 1678.
  2. ^ Wechua general election, 1673; Wechua general election, 1678; Wechua general election, 1683.
  3. ^ Coalition for Federal Progress.
  4. ^ NBC Newsfeed/1698; NBC Newsfeed/1693.
  5. ^ List of past Councils of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie.
  6. ^ List of past Councils of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie; Presidency of Paolo Antonio Aguilar.
  7. ^ Joint Department Order 1719.1 (Nouvelle Alexandrie).
  8. ^ NBC Newsfeed/1717.
  9. ^ NBC Newsfeed/1718; New Alexandrian general election, 1734/Meta.
  10. ^ NBC Newsfeed/1745; Administration of Premier Juan Pablo Jimenez; 11th Cortes Federales.
  11. ^ Alexandrium Treaty Ratification and Application Act, 1749; Vice-President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie.
  12. ^ Nobility of Nouvelle Alexandrie.
  13. ^ House of Vilca.
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