Francisco Castellón Sanabria

Francisco Castellón Sanabria (* 1815 - 8 September 1855 ) was a lawyer and from 1854 to 1856 Director Supremo of Nicaragua .

Castellón was under the Director Supremo Patricio Rivas , Ministro General . He was removed from this position in 1841 by the Director Supremo Pablo Buitrago and reinstated by the Supremo Director Manuel Perez in 1843. In 1844 he was the ambassador of Nicaragua in Great Britain and later in France . Under the Supremo Director José Laureano Pineda (1851-1853) he received a ministerial office again.

In May 1854 he led together with General Máximo Jerez Tellería , the uprising of the Partido Democrático (liberal), which was directed against the relocation of the seat of government from León to Granada by Fruto Chamorro Pérez . On June 16, 1854, he promulgated a decree prohibiting support for the government of Chamorro, based in Granada. In October 1854, Francisco Castellón Sanabria signed a contract with the US military service provider Byron Cole, which stipulated the delivery of 200 men, who were led by William Walker in June 1855 .

After the first battle in Rivas on June 29, 1855, William Walker took the seventh point of the contract as a legal basis, that he was naturalized as a Nicaraguan, and was elected President of Nicaragua by his brothers in arms. The first military actions of the mercenaries failed and on September 8, 1855 Francisco Castellón died in office of cholera . His successor as Director Supremo was the Licenciado Nazario Escoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministerio de Educación Francisco Castellón Sanabria

predecessor	Office	successor
José Trinidad Cabañas Fiallos	President of Central America October 28, 1852-10. November 1852	Federal Executive Council: Ángel Ugarte Salvador Gallegos Manuel Coronel Matus
Fruto Chamorro Pérez	President of West Nicaragua April 30, 1854–8. October 1855	Nazario Escoto