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Jose Fernandez Madrid

Jose Fernandez Madrid (19 February 1789-28 June 1830) was President of the United Provinces of New Granada from 5 October 1814 to 21 January 1815 (succeeding Camilo Torres Tenorio) and from 14 March to 22 June 1816 (succeeding Tenorio and preceding Liborio Mejia).

Biography[]

Jose Fernandez Madrid was born to an aristocratic family in Cartagena de Indias, Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1789. He was raised in Bogota and became a physician at the age of 20. He became Attorney General for the Province of Cartagena in 1810 and went on to serve in the Neogranadine Congress. He later served as President of the United Provinces of New Granada from 1814 to 1815 and in 1816, and he was forced to flee south amid the Spanish reconquest of New Granada. He was captured at the Battle of Cuchilla del Tambo, but his life was spared due to his family's service to the Spanish Empire, and he was instead exiled to Spain. In 1826, he was appointed Simon Bolivar's ambassador to the United Kingdom, and he died in London in 1830.

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