Pedro Gual | |
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President of Venezuela | |
In office 15 March 1858 – 18 March 1858 |
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Preceded by | José Tadeo Monagas |
Succeeded by | Julián Castro |
President of Venezuela | |
In office 2 August 1859 – 29 September 1859 |
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Preceded by | Julián Castro |
Succeeded by | Manuel Felipe de Tovar |
President of Venezuela | |
In office 20 May 1861 – 29 August 1861 |
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Preceded by | Manuel Felipe de Tovar |
Succeeded by | José Antonio Páez |
1st Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Colombia | |
In office 7 October 1821 – 17 September 1825 |
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President | Simón Bolívar |
Preceded by | *Office created |
Succeeded by | José Rafael Revenga y Hernández |
Personal details | |
Born |
Caracas, Venezuela |
17 January 1783
Died | 6 May 1862 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
(aged 79)
Political party | Conservative Party |
Spouse(s) | Rosa María Domínguez |
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Pedro José Ramón Gual (Caracas, Venezuela, 17 January 1783 – Guayaquil, Ecuador, 6 May 1862), was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat. In 1824 as chancellor of Great Colombia he negotiated with the U.S. diplomat Richard Clough Anderson and concluded the Anderson–Gual Treaty, the first bilateral treaty that the U.S. signed with another American state. He was President of Venezuela for three periods (1858, 1859, and 1861) and member of the Conservative Centralist party.