Mariano Ospina Rodríguez was a Colombian politician, journalist and lawyer, founder of the Colombian Conservative Party and later President of Colombia between 1857 and 1861 during the Granadine Confederation.
Ospina was born in Guasca, Viceroyalty of New Granada, on October 18, 1805. He died in Medellín, Antioquia, on January 11, 1885. His parents were Santiago Ospina and Urbina Rodríguez.
He was home schooled by both of his parents, Santiago an...
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Mariano Ospina Rodríguez was a Colombian politician, journalist and lawyer, founder of the Colombian Conservative Party and later President of Colombia between 1857 and 1861 during the Granadine Confederation.
Ospina was born in Guasca, Viceroyalty of New Granada, on October 18, 1805. He died in Medellín, Antioquia, on January 11, 1885. His parents were Santiago Ospina and Urbina Rodríguez.
He was home schooled by both of his parents, Santiago and Urbina, and later received private tutoring from Professor José Félix Restrepo. He attended the School of San Bartolomé in Bogotá, where he graduated in jurisprudence and obtained a Law degree in 1827.
Ospina's ideas and activities in the 1820s and 1830s indicated that he already conceived of technical education as an important instrument for economic development and general social improvement.
Ospina was the father of president Pedro Nel Ospina, and grand father of president Mariano Ospina Pérez.
In 1828, soon after graduating with a law...
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