Manuel Rodríguez Torices
| Manuel Rodríguez Torices | |
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| Governor President of the State of Cartagena de Indias | |
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In office April 1, 1812 – October 4, 1812 |
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| Preceded by | José María del Real |
| Succeeded by | None* |
| President of the United Provinces of the New Granada• | |
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In office July 28, 1815 – November 15, 1815 |
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Triumvirate |
| Succeeded by | Camilo Torres Tenorio |
| Vice President of the United Provinces of the New Granada | |
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In office November 15, 1815 – March 14, 1816 |
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| President | Camilo Torres Tenorio |
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| Born | May 24, 1788 Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar |
| Died | October 5, 1816 Bogotá, Cundinamarca |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Triumvirate
José María del Castillo y Rada, José Fernández Madrid,
Manuel Rodríguez Torices (full birth name Manuel Juan Robustiano de los Dolores Rodríguez Torices y Quiroz) (May 24, 1788 – October 5, 1816) was a Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, journalist, and Precursor of the Independence of Colombia. He was part of the Triumvirate of the United Provinces of New Granada in 1815, and served as Vice President of the United Provinces after the triumvirate. He was executed during the Reign of Terror of Pablo Morillo in 1816.
Rodríguez was born on May 24, 1788 in Cartagena de Indias in the Province of Barlovento part of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, in what is now the Bolívar Department in Colombia. His parents were Don Matías Rodríguez Torices, from Burgos, Spain, and doña María Trinidad Quirós y Navarro de Acevedo, from Santafé de Bogotá. He attended elementary school in Cartagena, and then attended the Our Lady of the Rosary University in Santafé de Bogotá, where he graduated in Law.
He participated in the tertulias of Bogotá, particularly in the Tertulia del Buen Gusto, that was held in the house of Manuela Sanz de Santamaría de Manrique and in which participated other important leaders as Camilo Torres Tenorio, Custodio García Rovira, and José Fernández Madrid, among others.
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