Carlos Eugenio Restrepo
(Carlos Eugenio Restrepo Restrepo; Medellín, 1867-1937) Colombian politician who was President of the Republic (1910-1914).Carlos Eugenio Restrepo learned his first letters at the parochial school in his neighborhood and continued his high school studies at the Seminario Conciliar de Medellín.Due to his extreme poverty he was forced to abandon his studies; In time, however, he would become a self-taught figure in 19th-century Colombian illustration.
Carlos E.Restrepo
He initially worked as an employee of the courts of Medellín, and ended up occupying a position as Superior Judge.Later, his vast and recognized culture allowed him to be appointed professor of Roman and constitutional law and political economy at the University of Antioquia, the cloister of which he was rector.He also stood out as an essayist and poet.In this facet he is remembered for his prose work El tequendama and his poems Jorge Isaacs and Pedro Justo Berrio , published in La Miscelneanea de Medellín.
As a result of the border conflict and the war with Peru during 1910 and 1911 (which he faced with great skill, given the Colombian military disadvantage), he established compulsory military service as of January 1912.In In the field of international politics, he signed the Urrutia-Thompson Treaty (1914), which put an end to the Colombian claims motivated by the intervention of the United States in Panama, which had led to the separation of the Isthmus in 1903.
At the end of his term, Carlos E.Restrepo spent almost fifteen years away from politics.In 1930, in order to combat conservative hegemony, he fervently supported the candidacy of the liberal Enrique Olaya Herrera (1930-1934) and his proposal for a Government of National Concentration . In his administration he held the Ministry of Government.In 1934 he was appointed Ambassador to the Holy See.
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