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Jorge Tadeo Lozano

1771–1816 · 19th century

Jorge Tadeo Lozano was a New Granadan naturalist and politician who became the first president of the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca in 1811. A member of the Bogotá elite, he headed a constitutional monarchy that still acknowledged Ferdinand VII, but was soon displaced by Antonio Nariño. After the Spanish reconquest he was executed by order of Pablo Morillo in 1816.

Jorge Tadeo Lozano
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Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca

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