Pedro José Ramón Gual (17 January 1783, in
Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
– 6 May 1862, in
Guayaquil, Ecuador
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), was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat.
During the
Venezuelan War of Independence he came to the United States to buy weapons for the Patriots. In 1815 he came to stay in the home of
Manuel Torres. With Torres and other agents he helped organize General
Francisco Xavier Mina's ill-fated expedition to Mexico, with Gual acting as Mina's press agent. Gual was one of the men who signed
Gregor MacGregor
General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central Am ...
's commission to
invade Amelia Island in 1817, which offended President
James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was ...
's administration; thereafter he left the U.S.
In 1824 as chancellor of
Great Colombia
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he negotiated with the U.S. diplomat
Richard Clough Anderson Jr. and concluded the
Anderson–Gual Treaty
The Anderson–Gual Treaty (formally, the General Convention of Peace, Amity, Navigation, and Commerce) was an 1824 treaty between the United States and Gran Colombia. It is the first bilateral treaty that the United States concluded with another A ...
, the first bilateral treaty that the U.S. signed with another
American state. He was the
president of Venezuela for three periods (1858, 1859, and 1861) and a member of the Conservative Centralist party.
See also
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Anderson–Gual Treaty
The Anderson–Gual Treaty (formally, the General Convention of Peace, Amity, Navigation, and Commerce) was an 1824 treaty between the United States and Gran Colombia. It is the first bilateral treaty that the United States concluded with another A ...
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Federal War
The Federal War ( es, Guerra Federal) — also known as the Great War or the Five Year War — was a civil war (1859–1863) in Venezuela between the Conservative party and the Liberal party over the monopoly the Conservatives held over govern ...
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Presidents of Venezuela
References
* "Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela", Fundación Polar, 1997.
* "Los Presidentes Volumen I/1811-1863" Ramón Urdaneta, Fondo Editorial Venezolano, 1995.
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Pedro Gual*
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Biography of the Foreign Affairs Ministry*
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External links
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1783 births
1862 deaths
Politicians from Caracas
Central University of Venezuela alumni
19th-century Venezuelan lawyers
Venezuelan journalists
Presidents of Venezuela
Vice presidents of Venezuela
Finance ministers of Venezuela
Foreign ministers of Colombia
Conservative Party (Venezuela) politicians