List of heads of state of the Federal Republic of Central America
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President of the Federal Republic of Central America | |
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Presidente de la República Federal de Centro América | |
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Longest serving Francisco Morazán 16 September 1830 – 16 September 1834 14 February 1835 – 1 February 1839 | |
Style | His Excellency |
Appointer | Electoral college |
Term length | 4 years |
Precursor | Captain General of Guatemala |
Formation | April 1825 |
First holder | Manuel José Arce |
Final holder | Diego Vigil y Cocaña (interim) |
Abolished | 31 March 1840 |
Superseded by | President of Costa Rica President of El Salvador President of Guatemala President of Honduras President of Nicaragua |
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This is a list of heads of state of the Federal Republic of Central America from its founding in 1821/1823 until its dissolution in 1840.
Heads of state
[edit]Superior Political Chiefs
[edit]No | Portrait | Head of State | Term of office | Party | ||
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Gabino Gaínza | 15 September 1821 | 5 January 1822 | 112 days | Independent |
Part of the First Mexican Empire (5 January 1822 – 1 July 1823) | ||||||
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José Matías Delgado | 1 July 1823 | 10 July 1823 | 9 days | Independent |
First Triumvirate
[edit]No | Portrait | Head of State | Term of office | Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
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Pedro Molina Mazariegos | 10 July 1823 | 4 October 1823 | 86 days | Liberal |
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Antonio Rivera Cabezas | Liberal | |||
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Juan Vicente Villacorta Díaz | Independent |
Second Triumvirate
[edit]No | Portrait | Head of State | Term of office | Party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
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Tomas O'Horan | 4 October 1823 | 29 April 1825 | 1 year and 207 days | Independent |
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José Santiago Milla Pineda Arriaga | 4 October 1823 | 5 February 1824 | 124 days | Independent |
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Juan Vicente Villacorta Díaz | 6 October 1823 | 15 March 1824 | 161 days | Liberal |
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José Cecilio del Valle | 5 February 1824 | 29 April 1825 | 1 year and 83 days | Conservative |
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Manuel José Arce | 15 March 1824 | 20 October 1824 | 219 days | Liberal |
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José Manuel de la Cerda y Aguilar | 20 October 1824 | 29 April 1825 | 191 days | Independent |
Presidents
[edit]- Political parties
Conservative
Liberal
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political affiliation | Ref. | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
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José Cecilio del Valle (1780–1834) |
1825 | Election nullified by the Federal Congress | Conservative | [1] | ||
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Manuel José Arce (1787–1847) |
1825 | 29 April 1825 | 14 February 1828 | 2 years and 291 days | Liberal | [2] |
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Mariano Beltranena y Llano (1781–1866) Interim President |
– | 14 February 1828 | 13 April 1829 | 1 year and 58 days | Conservative | [3] |
– | Francisco Morazán (1792–1842) De Facto President |
– | 13 April 1829 | 25 June 1829 | 73 days | Liberal | [4] | |
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José Francisco Barrundia (1787–1854) Interim President |
– | 25 June 1829 | 16 September 1830 | 1 year and 81 days | Liberal | |
2 | Francisco Morazán (1792–1842) |
1830 | 16 September 1830 | 16 September 1834 | 4 years and 0 days | Liberal | ||
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José Cecilio del Valle (1780–1834) |
1833 | Died in 1834 before assuming office | Conservative | |||
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José Gregorio Salazar (1773–1838) Interim President |
– | 16 September 1834 | 14 February 1835 | 151 days | Liberal | |
2 | Francisco Morazán (1792–1842) |
1835 | 14 February 1835 | 1 February 1839 | 3 years and 352 days | Liberal | ||
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Diego Vigil y Cocaña (1799–1845) Interim President |
– | 1 February 1839 | 31 March 1840 | 1 year and 59 days | Liberal |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Ulloa 2014, p. 171.
- ^ Marure 1895, pp. 27 & 45.
- ^ Peloso & Tenenbaum 1996, p. 71.
- ^ Chamorro Cardenal 1951, pp. 258 & 266.
Bibliography
[edit]- Chamorro Cardenal, Pedro Joaquín (1951). Historia de la Federación de la América Central: 1823–1840 [History of the Federation of Central America: 1823–1840] (PDF) (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica. OCLC 1172113044. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- Marure, Alejandro (1895). Efemérides de los Hechos Notables Acaecidos en la República de Centro-América Desde el Año de 1821 Hasta el de 1842 [Ephemeris of the Notable Events that Occurred in the Republic of Central America from the Year 1821 to that of 1842] (in Spanish). Central America: Tipografía Nacional. OCLC 02933391. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- Peloso, Vincent C. & Tenenbaum, Barbara A., eds. (1996). Liberals, Politics, and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-century Latin America. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820318004. OCLC 32779022. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- Ulloa, Félix (25 April 2014). "Dos Siglos de Elecciones en Centroamérica" [Two Centuries of Elections in Central America] (PDF). Electoral Right Magazine (in Spanish) (18). San Salvador, El Salvador: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: 164–231. ISSN 1659-2069. OCLC 933528636. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2024.