Colombian presidential election, 1909

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Indirect presidential elections were held in Colombia on 3 August 1909. The result was a victory for Ramón González Valencia.

Colombia Country in South America

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, with the capital in Bogota.

Ramón González Valencia President of Colombia

Ramón González Valencia was a Colombian conservative, military officer and statesman. He participated in the civil wars of 1876, Colombian Civil War of 1895, and the Thousand Days War.

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Background

President Rafael Reyes went into exile on 13 June 1909. Jorge Holguín served as temporary president until a new Congress was elected in June was able to elect an interim president to serve out the remainder of Reyes' term, which ended on 7 August 1910. [1]

Rafael Reyes President of Colombia, 1904-1909

Rafael Reyes Prieto was Chief of Staff of the Colombian National Army and President of Colombia (1904–1909).

Jorge Holguín Colombian politician

Jorge Marcelo Holguín Mallarino was a Colombian politician and military officer, two time Acting President of Colombia: June–August 1909 as interim president, and from November 1921 to August 1922. He also served a term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in which he signed the Holguín-Avebury treaty.

Congress of Colombia parliament

The Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the name given to Colombia's bicameral national legislature.

Results

CandidateVotes%
Ramón González Valencia 4759.9
Marco Fidel Suárez 3139.2
Guillermo Quintero Calderón 11.3
Total79100
Source: Historia electoral colombiana [2]

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References

  1. Elections and Events 1900-1909 [ permanent dead link ] The Library, UC San Diego
  2. Historia electoral colombiana, La Registraduría, 1991, p150