Wednesday, 6 May 2015

06-MAY-1840 :- DEATH OF Francisco de Paula Santander , 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada.

Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña 
( April 2, 1792 –  May 6, 1840), was a Colombian military and political leader during the 1810–1819 independence war of the United Provinces of New Granada (present-day Colombia). He was the acting President of Gran Colombia between 1819 and 1826, and later elected by Congress as the President of the Republic of New Granada between 1832 and 1837. Santander came to be known as "The Man of the Laws".

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