Mariano Ospina Pérez
| Mariano Ospina Pérez | |
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| 17th President of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 1946 – 7 August 1950 |
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| Preceded by | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Succeeded by | Laureano Gómez Castro |
| 29th Minister of Public Works of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 1926 – 17 May 1927 |
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| President | Miguel Abadía Méndez |
| Preceded by | Laureano Gómez Castro |
| Succeeded by | Salvador Franco Ferreira |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez 24 November 1891 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Died | 14 April 1976 (aged 84) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Bertha Hernández Fernández (1946–1976) |
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| Profession | Mining Engineer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| La Violencia |
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| Prelude |
| Murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán |
| El Bogotazo |
| Political Parties |
| Liberal Party |
| Conservative Party |
| Colombian Communist Party |
| Presidents of Colombia |
| Mariano Ospina Pérez |
| Laureano Gómez |
| Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez (24 November 1891 – 14 April 1976), commonly known as Mariano Ospina Pérez, was a Colombian politician and a member of the Colombian Conservative Party. He served as the 17th President of Colombia between 1946 and 1950.
Ospina was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 24 November 1891 to his parents Tulio Ospina Vásquez and Ana Rosa Pérez, who were members of the traditional Colombian political families. He also spent his early years there. He was the grandson of former President of Colombia Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and nephew of President Pedro Nel Ospina.
Ospina was taught at the Colegio San Ignacio in Medellín and also studied engineering at the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Mining School of Antioquia), where he graduated as mining engineer. After graduating Ospina traveled for two years during which he toured and studied in Louisiana, London and Paris. Whilst on these travels he took courses on gold mining, sugar cane production, economics, labor relations, cooperativism, civil engineering and railway systems.
Ospina, who studied engineering at the Escuela de Minas de Medellín and Louisiana State University, served as the executive administrator of the National Federation of Coffee Growers and was a prominent businessman in other sectors before becoming president in 1946.
In 1927, after the Second National Congress of Coffee Growers had created the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, the first regional committee was established as “el Comité de Cafeteros de Antioquia”. Ospina was its first President, and the first registered member of the association.
The first Board of Directors of the newly organized National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia assembled in Bogotá on August 3, 1929. Its first members were Mariano Ospina Vásquez, Alberto Camilo Suárez, Gabriel Ortiz Williamson, Carlos Caballero, Jesús del Corral and Mariano Ospina Pérez, the greatest dignitary in the History of the Federation, for whom the organization of the national coffee industry was one of his most serious and ambitious concerns.
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