Belisario Porras Barahona
Belisario Porras Barahona | |
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President of Panama | |
In office 1 October 1912 – 1 October 1916 | |
Deputy | Presidential designates Rodolfo Chiari Ramón Maximiliano Valdés Aristides Arjona Ramón Maximiliano Valdés Manuel Quintero Ciro Urriola |
Preceded by | Pablo Arosemena |
Succeeded by | Ramón Maximiliano Valdés |
In office 12 October 1918 – 30 January 1920 | |
Deputy | Presidential designates Pedro Antonio Díaz Ernesto Lefevre |
Preceded by | Pedro Antonio Díaz |
Succeeded by | Ernesto Lefevre |
In office 1 October 1920 – 1 October 1924 | |
Deputy | Presidential designates Federico Boyd Guillermo Andreve Julio Fábrega Rodolfo Chiari Ignacio Quinzada Nicanor A. De Obarrio |
Preceded by | Ernesto Lefevre |
Succeeded by | Rodolfo Chiari |
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Born | Belisario Porras Barahona 28 November, 1856 Las Tablas, Republic of New Granada |
Died | 28 August, 1942 Panama City, Panama |
Nationality | Panamanian |
Belisario Porras Barahona (28 November 1856 – 28 August 1942) was a Panamanian journalist and politician. He served three terms as President of Panama between 1912 and 1924.
Porras was born in Las Tablas, on the thirty-fifth anniversary of Panama's declaration of independence from Spain. Raised by his grandmother, his early education was paid for by his father in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, which Panama was a province of at the time. He joined his father when he went to secondary school, went on to study law at the National University in 1874, and won a scholarship from the Colombian government to study in Belgium from where he later returned to Panama.
Working as a reporter, he aligned himself with the local Colombian Liberal Party, and was soon the target of persecution by the reigning Conservative government in Bogotá. Exiled to Nicaragua and El Salvador, he took jobs as a professor and a reporter.
As the Thousand Days War began in Colombia, the Liberals in Panama sent for Porras to lead the invasion of the Isthmus in 1900. Working with General Victoriano Lorenzo and others, he began his struggle from Costa Rica in the West. He organized a volunteer army and reached the capital where he was defeated in the Battle of Calidonia Bridge. Porras returned to exile until 1904, after his homeland had acquired its independence, and became a diplomat until becoming president in 1912. The Panama Canal was finished during his first term in office.
He was elected as the first presidential designate by the National Assembly in September 1918.[1] He died in Panama City.
Belisario Porras Barahoma was born to Demetrio Porras Cavero and Juana Gumersinda Barahona. Belisario married twice. First, in 1881 he married Eva Paniza Arosemena and they had 5 children: Belisario Roberto, Demetrio, Camilo, María Teresa, Leticia Antonia. In 1906 he married Alicia Castro and had 4 children: Rodrigo, Hernán, Alicia y Álvaro. He also had children outside of both marriages: Demetrio Augusto, Silvia, Julieta y Emilia.
References
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- ^ Guizado, Fernando Berguido (1987). "La sucesión presidencial en el derecho panameño".
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Preceded by | President of Panama 1912–1916 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | President of Panama 1918–1920 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | President of Panama 1920–1924 | Succeeded by |
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- Manuel Amador Guerrero
- José Domingo de Obaldía
- Carlos Mendoza
- Federico Boyd
- Pablo Arosemena
- Belisario Porras
- Ramón Valdés
- Ciro Urriola
- Pedro Díaz
- Belisario Porras
- Ernesto Lefevre
- Belisario Porras
- Rodolfo Chiari
- Florencio Arosemena
- Harmodio Arias
- Ricardo Alfaro
- Harmodio Arias
- Juan Arosemena
- Ezequiel Fernández
- Augusto Boyd
- Arnulfo Arias
- Ricardo de la Guardia
- Enrique Jiménez
- Domingo Díaz Arosemena
- Daniel Chanis
- Roberto Chiari
- Arnulfo Arias
- Alcibíades Arosemena
- José Remón
- José Ramón Guizado
- Ricardo Arias
- Ernesto de la Guardia
- Roberto Chiari
- Marco Aurelio Robles
- Arnulfo Arias
- José María Pinilla
- Demetrio Lakas
- Aristides Royo
- Ricardo de la Espriella
- Jorge Illueca
- Nicolás Barletta
- Eric Delvalle
- Manuel Solís Palma
- Francisco Rodríguez
- Guillermo Endara
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares
- Mireya Moscoso
- Martín Torrijos
- Ricardo Martinelli
- Juan Carlos Varela
- Laurentino Cortizo
- José Raúl Mulino
Commanders of the Panamanian Defense Forces (1968–1989) | |
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