Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano (2 October 1790 in Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata - 1861) was a Spanish nobleman and politician who served as Minister of State between 1853 and 1854. He was a correspondent of William H. Prescott, the eminent American historian.
In 1843, Calderón de la Barca was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] From 1844 to 1853, he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States in Washington, D.C. under Prime Ministers Ramon Maria Narvaez and American presidents John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore. Between 1853 and 1854, Calderón de la Barca served as Minister of State under Prime Minister Luis José Sartorius, during the reign of Queen Isabella II.[2]
Orestes Brownson recounted the following:
He was married firstly to Isabel Ana de Vera y Sotosánchez and later to Frances Inglis (who was granted the Marquisate of Calderón de la Barca in 1876), who wrote a successful book concerning their life in Mexico when de la Barca was stationed there as an envoy.
In Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Calderón de la Barca is played by Tomas Milian.
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