Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera

Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera

Infobox Officeholder | name =Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda


order =8th President of the Republic of the New Granada
term_start =April 1, 1845
term_end =April 1, 1849
vicepresident =Rufino Cuervo
predecessor =Pedro Alcántara Herrán
successor =José Hilario López
order2 =3rd President of the Granadine Confederation¹
term_start2 =July 18, 1861
term_end2 =February 4, 1863
predecessor2 =Bartolomé Calvo
successor2 =Francisco Javier Zaldua
order3 =President of the United States of Colombia
term_start3 =May 14, 1863
term_end3 =April 8, 1864
predecessor3 =Eustorgio Salgar
successor3 =Manuel Murillo Toro
order4 =President of the United States of Colombia²
term_start4 =May 22, 1866
term_end4 =November 1, 1867²
predecessor4 =José María Rojas Garrido
successor4 =Joaquín Riascos
birth_date =September 26, 1798
birth_place =Popayán, Cauca
death_date =October 7, 1878
death_place =Puracé, Cauca
party =Conservative turned Liberal
spouse =Mariana Buenaventura Arboleda y Arroyo ³
religion =Roman Catholic
footnotes =¹Last President of the Granadine Confederation.²Deposed by a Coup d’etat
³Fist wife.

Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda (1798 - 1878) was a Colombian general and political figure. After taking power during the Colombian Civil War of 1860-1862, he was president of Colombia between 1863 and 1864, and again from 1866 until 1867.

After suffering face wounds during a battle in 1824, which forced him to use a metal prosthesis, Mosquera was nicknamed "Mascachochas" by some of his contemporary critics.


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