Domingo Caycedo

Domingo Caycedo
Domingo de Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría
Interim President of the Republic of Colombia*
In office
May 4, 1830 – June 13, 1830
Preceded by Simón Bolívar
Succeeded by Joaquín Mosquera
1st President of the Republic of New Granada*
2nd President of the Republic of New Granada*
In office
May 3, 1831 – November 21, 1831
November 21, 1831 - November 23, 1831
Preceded by none
Succeeded by José María Obando
Interim President of the Republic of New Granada*
In office
April 1, 1841 – April 1, 1841
Preceded by José Ignacio de Márquez
Succeeded by Pedro Alcántara Herrán
Personal details
Born August 4, 1783(1783-08-04)
Santa Fe de Bogotá
Died July 1, 1843(1843-07-01) (aged 59)
Puente Aranda
Political party Conservartive
Spouse(s) Juana Jurado y Bertendona
Religion Roman Catholic
*Never elected president, served a total of 11 times as Interim President as the Vicepresident in office.

Domingo de Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría (1783 – 1843) was a Colombian statesman who served as Vice-president of Gran Colombia and the Republic of New Granada, and due to the absence of the presidents, he himself served as President a total of eleven times, making him the person to have served more times as President of Colombia. He is also credited for creating the Republic of New Granada after the division of Venezuela and Ecuador.

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Biographic data

Caycedo was born in Santa Fe de Bogotá on August 4, 1783 and died in Puente Aranda, near Bogotá, on July 1, 1843.[1]

Early life

Caycedo studied Law in the "Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario" (nowadays known as Universidad del Rosario) in Bogotá, where he later became its vice-rector (deputy Headmaster). At an early age, he decided to not to practice law, but rather became more interested in military and political activities. He later became a General of de Army and President of the country.[1]

He traveled to Spain, where we joined the army to fight against Napoleon. He also worked as secretary in the Spanish Cortes (Congress).[1]

Military career

Upon realizing the events of July 20, 1810, in his motherland, Caycedo returns to America with Vicente Bolívar, brother of Simón Bolívar, the future “Libertador” and first president of Colombia, and he enlists in the Colombian revolutionary army. He became a member of the Advisory Council to General Antonio Nariño..[1]

He fought in the battles of “la Cuchilla del Tambo” y “la Plata”, where he is arrested by the Spanish troops. He is court martial as prisoner of war, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Thanks to the influence of his father-in-law, his wife Juana Jurado y Bertendona and some monetary payments to the Spanish authorities, his life is speared. He is freed under probation and he vanishes from the war theatre until the revolutionary triumph at the Battle of Boyacá (Puente de Boyacá) on August 7, 1819.[1]

Political career

Once again, after the revolutionary triumph of August 7, 1819, Caycedo returns to public life under the protection of Simón Bolívar. In 1827 he is appointed as Governor of Neiva, elected to Congress and ascended to General of the Army. He becomes part of the inner circle of Bolívar, whom in 1829, appoints him, first, as Secretary of the Interior and a year later as Secretary of State. Afterwards, Caycedo is appointed as president of the “Consejo de Estado” (the precursor of the Supreme Court) to replace the retiring José María Castillo y Rada, whom decided to become member of Congress of the Gran Colombia..[1]

The Presidency

On April 1, 1830, when President Bolívar had to take a leave of absence from Bogotá to the Hacienda of Fucha, seeking to recover from an illness, Caycedo assumes the Office of Interim President. This would be the first of several occasions to act as President in this capacity.[2]

Later that same year, when Simón Bolívar, the Founding Father, irrevocably resigns to the presidency, Congress elects don Joaquín de Mosquera as president and Caycedo as vice-president. Because Mosquera was very ill and frail, Caycedo assumed the executive power as acting president on August 2, 1830.[2]

Caycedo is deposed, by the first coup d’état in the country, by the Venezuelan General Rafael Urdaneta on September 5, 1830. Months later, supported by the regrouped constitutional army, Caycedo proclaims to be the legitimate president on April 11, 1831. He contacts General Urdaneta and invites him to a summit to discuss the future of the nation’s government. Urdaneta accepts, and on April 28, 1831, they meet at Junats de Apulo, near the town of Tocaima. They both reach an agreement and sign the Accord of Apulo, by which General Urdaneta recognizes Caycedo as acting president. Thus, Caycedo, once again, takes office on May 3, 1831.[2]

Caycedo, as acting president, convenes Congress. On November 15, 1831, Congress elects General Francisco de Paula Santander as president and General José María Obando as vice-president.[3]

A few years later he is elected to Congress, appointed Secretary of the Treasury and once again, six more times, Caycedo act as interim president every time that president José Ignacio de Márquez needs be absent from office for short periods of time.[3]

Finally, between 1841 and 1845, during the presidency of Pedro Alcántara Herrán, Caycedo once again, acts twice as interim president during temporary absences by the president. As such, General Caycedo became the Colombian to have acted as president the most times, eleven in total.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Gobernantes Colombianos, Ignacio Arismendi Posada, Interprint Editors Ltd., Italgraf, Segunda Edición, Page 31, Bogotá, Colombia, 1983
  2. ^ a b c Gobernantes Colombianos, Ignacio Arismendi Posada, Interprint Editors Ltd., Italgraf, Segunda Edición, Page 32, Bogotá, Colombia, 1983
  3. ^ a b c Gobernantes Colombianos, Ignacio Arismendi Posada, Interprint Editors Ltd., Italgraf, Segunda Edición, Page 33, Bogotá, Colombia, 1983



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