Carlos Holguín Mallarino (11 June 1832 - 19 October 1894) was a Colombian lawyer, journalist and statesman who became President of Colombia between 1888 and 1892, acting in the absence of President Rafael Núñez.
Carlos Holguín Mallarino was born on 11 July 1832, in the town of Nóvita, Chocó, when this region was still part of the department (state) of Cauca. He died in Bogotá on 19 October 1894, while serving in Congress as Senator. Carlos Holguí...
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Carlos Holguín Mallarino (11 June 1832 - 19 October 1894) was a Colombian lawyer, journalist and statesman who became President of Colombia between 1888 and 1892, acting in the absence of President Rafael Núñez.
Carlos Holguín Mallarino was born on 11 July 1832, in the town of Nóvita, Chocó, when this region was still part of the department (state) of Cauca. He died in Bogotá on 19 October 1894, while serving in Congress as Senator. Carlos Holguín Mallarino was part of the prominent Holguín, Mallarino and Caro Families. Both, his uncle Manuel María Mallarino and his brother Jorge Holguín, were Presidents of Colombia, as was his brother-in-law Miguel Antonio Caro who succeeded him in office".
Holguín completed his first years of education in the city of Cali, Valle. He then traveled to Bogotá, where he studied jurisprudence and obtained a degree in Law at the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé, before his 20th birthday. His adoptive grandfather, an Englishman called Paterson Saunders, had...
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