Roque Ferreyra (16 August 1810 – 13 September 1885) was an Argentine politician, twice Governor of Córdoba Province. Biography Ferreyra was a member of the Federal Party and a prosperous businessman. He supported the revolution of 1840 against governor Manuel López and was arrested, but benefited from an amnesty and did not involve himself in politics until the fall of López in 1852. From 1852 he was a provincial legislator and earned the respect of the provincial governor Alejo del Carmen Guzmán, becoming president of the legislature. First term as governor On 17 June 1855 he was elected Governor of Córdoba Province, assuming the post on 21 June. One of the first tasks he had to take was to maintain institutional order in the province in the midst of a civil war. On 16 August a new provincial constitution was approved, based on the constitutions of Mendoza Province and Chile. It was ratified by the Confederation's Congress on 19 September and instituted on 30 November 1855. One important measure was the institution of a municipal reorganization in September 1856, augmenting the number of departments in the province to give the administration more efficiency in governing and managing, the Punilla Department was divided in two, giving origin to the Cruz del Eje Department (1856). The following year local authorities were elected, and the Capital's municipal government was put in place on 9 July 1857, with its first president Juan Posse. On 3 January 1858 the Municipality of Río Cuarto was organized, with its new president Adolfo Ortiz. Governor Ferreyra organized the civilian night guards corps in the provincial capital, and the first police force, separated from the army. He was preoccupied on the interior of the province and its affairs, travelling there on numerous occasions, leaving governmental control to his seconds Gumersindo Asúnsulo, José Alejo Román and Tomás Garzón. Córdoba Province had big population growth during his tenure. The census of March 1857 showed a total of 137,079 inhabitants in the province, 26,540 more than in the 1852 census. Reaching the end of his term as governor there were many disputes between the main political factions increasing daily to nominate a successor. On 23 May 1858, the provincial congress nominated Mariano Fragueiro as governor. Provincial crisis In the years that followed, he was one of the most prominent leaders of Córdoba's Unitarianism, along with Manuel D. Pizarro, Félix de la Peña