Pedro Domingo Murillo
Pedro Domingo Murillo (1757–1810) was a patriot of Upper Peru who played a key role in Bolivia's independence.
Biography
Born in the city of La Paz on September 17, 1757. Belonging to an elite family of La Paz, his father is Juan Ciriaco Murillo, seminarian who shortly after his birth became a priest and a native woman named Mary Ascencia Carasco. He was trained by his father and may have attended the Colegio Seminario de San Carlos, at La Paz. Then he studied law at the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de La Plata (Chuquisaca, now Sucre), although apparently he did not finished his studies. In 1778 he married in Potosi Olmedo Manuel de la Concha. In 1781 he found himself living in Irupana and had at least two children. When he took part in the campaign against the Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II, distinguished by its great value, for which he was appointed Lieutenant of the Militia.
In 1785 his father died, Juan Ciriaco Murillo, which left most of his fortune to the children of Pedro Murillo and Manuel de la Concha. However, an aunt of Pedro, called Catalina Felipe, he filed a lawsuit, he disputed property left by Juan Ciriaco. Murillo won easily in the first instance, but made a terrible mistake: falsifying his law degree.
