According to Wikipedia, Lindo was born into a landholding
family. There is some question about his birth and death dates. Some sources
give 1790 for his birth and some give 1853 for his death. In 1814 he became a
lawyer (licenciado en derecho) at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala.
After graduation, he worked for the Spanish regime.
He was elected deputy to the Legislative
Assembly of Honduras in 1826. The following year he aided Conservative Jose
Justo Milla in his defeat of Honduran Chief of State, Dionisio de Herrera. He
was a deputy to the constituent assembly that was convoked in June 1838, where
he represented the Conservative Party. From his position in the assembly, he
promoted the separation of Honduras from the Federal Republic of Central
America, in October 1838.
In 1842 he returned
to Honduras and established himself at Comayagua. After General Francisco
Ferrera declined to serve as president, the Honduran assembly elected Lindo
constitutional president, a position he exercised from 12 February 1847 to 4
February 1848. During his term he established the University of Honduras and
promulgated a new constitution. In accordance with the new constitution, he was
elected for a second term, which ended on 1 February 1852.
In his second
administration in Honduras, General Jose Santos Guardiola, appointed by Lindo,
revolted in Tegucigalpa against the National Assembly, with the intent of
taking prisoner General Ferrera and Don Coronado Chávez, who were intriguing
against Lindo. Felipe Bustillo, who had taken over government functions from
Lindo, fled to Copán, and Lindo resumed the presidency. Ferrera and Chávez fled
to El Salvador. Guardiola later revolted against Lindo, but was defeated and
went into voluntary exile.
At the end of Lindo's
second term General Jose Trinidad Cabañas entered the presidency. Lindo retired
from politics and established himself in the city of Gracias, department of
Lempira, where he died in 1857.
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