Mariano Ospina Pérez
Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez (born November 24, 1891 in Medellín , Colombia , † April 14, 1976 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian politician of the conservative Partido Conservador Colombiano and from May 5, 1946 to November 27, 1949 President of Colombia .
biography
Ospina Pérez came from a politically influential family and was a grandson of Mariano Ospina Rodríguez , the President of New Granada and the Granada Confederation from 1857 to 1861, and a nephew of the President from 1922 to 1926 Pedro Nel Ospina .
After attending school, he studied at the Mining School of Antioquia ( Escuela de Minas de Antioquia ) and then worked as a mining engineer. After a two-year postgraduate course at Louisiana State University , he devoted himself to a variety of activities in gold mining, sugar cane production , economics, industrial relations, cooperative system, civil engineering and railroad construction.
He himself began his political career as a member of the city council of Medellín, to which he was elected in 1915 as a representative of the Conservatives. In the following years he held numerous electoral offices. At the same time he became a member of the Departmental Assembly of Antioquia in 1917 . After working as superintendent of the railways of Antioquia ( Ferrocarril de Antioquia ) from 1919 to 1921, he succeeded his father as director of the mining school of Antioquia. At the same time he was first elected a member of the House of Representatives ( Cámara de Representantes ) and belonged to the Senate of Colombia ( Senado ) from 1922 to 1926 during the presidency of his uncle Pedro Nel Ospina .
In August 1926 he was appointed Minister for Public Works ( Ministro de Obras Públicas ) by the newly elected President Miguel Abadia Méndez as the successor to Laureano Gómez , but left the government in May 1927.
After all, since 1929 he was President of the National Federation of Colombian Coffee Planters ( Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia ) for many years .
At a time when internal party conflict was beginning, he was elected president in 1946 with the support of Laureano Gómez and tried to form a coalition with the liberal Partido Liberal Colombiano . However, he did not succeed in preventing the growing violence between the parties, which culminated on April 9, 1948 with the murder of the leader of the Liberal Party, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán . After the alleged involvement of Foreign Minister Laureano Gómez in the assassination became known, the inner-party conflict between the moderate conservative faction, dominated by the upper class under Ospina Pérez, and the majority faction of the Partido Conservator under Laureano Gómez grew .
After Gómez became his successor President of Colombia on August 7, 1950, he remained an authoritative leader of the Conservatives. Ultimately, the personal animosity between him and Gómez posed a serious problem in the formation of the National Front ( Frente Nacional ) in 1957, the agreement between liberals and conservatives to alternate the position of president for four years between 1958 and 1974.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Lleras Camargo |
President of Colombia 1946–1950 |
Laureano Gomez |
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| SURNAME | Ospina Pérez, Mariano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ospina Pérez, Luis Mariano (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian politician, President of Colombia (1946–1950) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Medellin , Colombia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1976 |
| Place of death | Bogotá |