Pedro Nel Ospina (18 September 1858-1 July 1927) was President of Colombia from 7 August 1922 to 7 August 1926, succeeding Jorge Holguin and preceding Miguel Abadia Mendez.
Biography[]
Pedro Nel Ospina was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1858, the son of Mariano Ospina Rodriguez. He worked as a mining engineer after training in California, and he served as MP for Antioquia from 1892 to 1894 before serving as a general in the Thousand Days' War. Nel went on to serve as Ambassador to the United States from 1910 to 1918, Governor of Antioquia from 1918 to 1920, and President from 1922 to 1926. He created a modern central bank and the Bogota stock exchange during his tenure, and he died in 1927.