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Bartolomé Calvo

Bartolomé Calvo
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2nd President of the Granadine Confederation
In office
1 April 1861 – 18 July 1861
Preceded by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
Succeeded by Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
3rd Governor of Panama
In office
1 October 1856 – 1 June 1858
Lieutenant Francisco Fábregas
Preceded by Francisco de Fábregas
Succeeded by Ramón Gamboa
8th Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Ecuador
In office
18 April 1886 – 20 January 1889
President Rafael Núñez
Preceded by Sergio Camargo
Succeeded by Francisco de Paula Urrutia Ordóñez
Personal details
Born Bartolomé Calvo Díaz de Lamadrid
(1815-08-24)24 August 1815
Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, United Provinces of New Granada
Died 2 January 1889(1889-01-02) (aged 73)
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Resting place Central Cemetery of Bogotá
Nationality Colombian
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Isidora Martí
Alma mater University of Magdalena
Occupation Lawyer, Diplomat, Journalist (Typographer, Editor)
Religion Roman Catholic

Bartolomé Calvo Díaz de Lamadrid (August 24, 1815 – January 2, 1889) was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and statesman, who became President of the Granadine Confederation, in what is now Colombia, in 1861 in his role as Inspector General, because no elections were held on that year to decide the presidency. He also served as Governor of Panama and Ambassador to Ecuador, and worked in a number of newspapers.

Bartolomé Calvo Díaz de Lamadrid was born on August 24, 1815 in Cartagena de Indias, in what was then the United Provinces of the New Granada. Orphaned at an early age, he spend his youth working in the print shop his father had left him and his brothers. He attended the University of Magdalena where he graduated in Jurisprudence.

He was married to Isidora Martí.

Calvo inherited the passion for journalism from his father, one of the oldest typographers of Cartagena. After finishing his studies, he worked for the newspapers La Civilización and La República, and then he moved to Panama where he became the publisher and editor of El Correo del Istmo.

After that he became editor-in-chief of La Estrella de Panamá, the Spanish language section of the trilingual newspaper The Daily Star & Herald. Calvo’s strong political views, however, did not meet the commercial interests of the newspaper owners, and Calvo refused to compromise his views, which led to the closing of La Estrella and his firing.

When the Vice-Governor Francisco Fábregas took over the State as Governor in replacement of Justo Arosemena, he named Bartolomé Calvo as his Secretary of State. By now, racial tensions generated by the United States and the Americans living in Panama were getting very violent, Panamanians were angry that the Americans were taking all the jobs and the Americans discriminated the population. On the morning of April 15, 1856 a riot known as the Watermelon War took place. The results of this were very hard for the administration who was blamed by the United States and had to pay substantial damages.


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