Tomás Obejero
Tomás Obejero Marmolejo (21 December 1781 – 1849), commonly known as Tomás Obejero, was a Chilean public official and politician.
A senior official of the War Ministry, he served several times as acting Minister of War and Navy between 1826 and 1829 and represented San Fernando in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile from 1837 to 1840.
Education
Obejero was born in Santiago on 21 December 1781, the son of Juan Francisco Obejero and Tomasa Marmolejo y Urrutia. Information about his formal education is not recorded in his parliamentary biography.
Political career
Obejero served as a senior official of the War Ministry. On 20 June 1826, during the government of Ramón Freire, he was appointed acting Minister of War and Navy. He continued in the position under provisional president Manuel Blanco Encalada until 17 August 1826.
He briefly returned as acting minister of war from 9 to 26 September 1826 during the vice presidency of Agustín Eyzaguirre. Obejero again assumed the War and Navy portfolio on 5 November 1826 and, with several interruptions and under successive governments, continued to serve as an acting minister until 16 July 1829.
In 1837, Obejero was elected deputy for San Fernando for the 1837–1840 legislative period. He served on the Permanent Commission on Government and the Permanent Commission on War and Navy.
Obejero died in Santiago in 1849.