José Manuel Marroquín

Infobox President
name = José Manuel Marroquín Ricaurte


order = 8th
office = President of Colombia
term_start = July 31, 1900
term_end = August 7, 1904
predecessor = Manuel Antonio Sanclemente
successor =Rafael Reyes
order2 =3rd
office2 = Vice President of Colombia
term_start2 = November 3, 1898
term_end2 = July 31, 1900
president2 =Manuel Antonio Sanclemente
predecessor2 =Miguel Antonio Caro
successor2 =Ramón González Valencia
order3 = Acting
office3 =President of Colombia
term_start3 = August 7, 1898
term_end3 =November 3, 1898
president3 = Manuel Antonio Sanclemente
office4 = Minister of National Education
president4 = Miguel Antonio Caro
birth_date = August 6, 1827
birth_place = Bogotá, Capital District
death_date = birth date and age|1908|09|19
death_place = Bogotá, Capital District
nationality = Colombian
party = Conservative
spouse =
alma_mater = Saint Bartholomew Mayor College
occupation = Lawyer, Farmer (Planter), Educator, Writer
religion = Roman Catholic
footnotes =

Jose Manuel Marroquin (Bogotá, August 6, 1827 - September 19, 1908) was a Colombian political figure and writer.

He started studying literature and philosophy at the age of five. He went on to study jurisprudence at the College of San Bartolomé. Co-founder of Academia Colombiana de la Lengua with Miguel Antonio Caro and José María Vergara, he was first vice-president of the Republic of Colombia in 1898 and elected president thereafter by 1900 and re-elected in 1904.

Apart from his political involvement, he was a writer, having published many books and collection of poems in Spanish.

References

* [http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/educacion/orto/orto2.htm APUNTES AUTOBIOGRÁFICOS] , La Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, el Museo del Oro, accessed October 3, 2006.