Juan Crisóstomo Falcón

Infobox_President | name=Juan Crisóstomo Falcón


order=20th President of Venezuela
term_start=June 15, 1863
term_end=April 25, 1868
predecessor=José Antonio Páez
successor= Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual
birth_date= birth date|1820|1|27|mf=y
birth_place= Hato Tabe, Falcón, Venezuela
death_date= death date and age|1870|4|29|1820|1|27|mf=y
death_place= Fort-de-France, Martinique
party=Liberal Party
spouse=Luisa Isabel Pachano Muñoz

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Juan Crisóstomo Falcón y Zavarce (27 January 1820 – 29 April 1870) was president of Venezuela (1863-1868).

Member of the liberal Venezuelan Federalist Party, he first served as president of Venezuela as the supreme chief of a rebel movement in August 1859, but the rebellion was soon crushed. He served as the recognized president of Venezuela from 1863 to 1868, when a conservative revolution headed by General José Tadeo Monagas ended his term as president. Also, he was briefly overthrown in 1865. At the end of his presidential term, Falcón emigrated to Europe. He died in Martinique in 1870. The state of Falcón is named after him.

In 1863 Venezuela, under the presidency of Juan Crisostomo Falcon, became the first country to abolish capital punishment for all crimes, including serious offenses against the state. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-224699/capital-punishment]