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Presidents
(Arranged chronologically by their administration)

Presidents of the State of de Cundinamarca

Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1771-1816)
Presidential term: 1811
First president of the state of Cundinamarca. He introduced the first Liberal Constitution for the state.

Antonio Nariño (1765-1823)
Presidential term:1811–1812
Precursor to Colombian Independence, he was a political and military leader. Nariño was the first Spanish American translator of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen", promulgated by the French National Constituent Assembly in 1789.

Presidents of New Granada

General Domingo Caycedo Santamaría (1783-1843)
Presidential term: 1830 (Vice-president and president ).

General Pedro Alcántara Herrán (1800-1872)
Presidential term: 1841–1845

Presidents of the Granadine Confederation

General Eustorgio Salgar (1831-1885)
Presidential term: 1870–1872

Francisco Javier Zaldúa (1811-1882)
Presidential term: 1882.


Presidents of the Republic of Colombia

Miguel Antonio Caro Tovar (1843-1909)
Presidential term: 1892–1898        (See Writers)

José Manuel Marroquín (1827-1908)
Presidential term: 1900–1904        (See Writers)

José Vicente Concha (1867-1929)
Presidential term: 1914–1918

Pedro Nel Ospina (1858-1927)
Presidential term: 1922–1926

Eduardo Santos (1888-1974)
Presidential term: 1938–1942        (See Writers)

Alberto Lleras Camargo (1903-1990)
Presidential terms: 1945–1946 / 1958–1962

Laureano Gómez Castro (1889-1965)
Presidential term: 1950–1953

Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (1890-1972)
Presidential term: 1951–1953

Carlos Lleras Restrepo (1908-1990)
Presidential term: 1966–1970         (See Writers)

Alfonso López Michelsen (1913-2007)
Presidential term: 1974–1978

Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916-2005)
Presidential term: 1978–1982

Ernesto Samper Pizano
Presidential term: 1994–1998
Born in 1950.

Andrés Pastrana Arango
Presidential term: 1998–2002
Born in 1954.




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