Great Liberal Party of Venezuela
Liberal Party Partido Liberal | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Antonio Leocadio Guzmán |
| Founded | August 20, 1840 |
| Dissolved | 1899 |
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Newspaper | El Venezolano |
| Ideology | Liberalism Federalism Factions: Economic liberalism (Tomás Lander faction)[1] Guzmánism (Antonio Guzmán Blanco faction) Zamoraism (Ezequiel Zamora faction) Utopian socialism (Ezequiel Zamora faction)[2] Mutualism (Ezequiel Zamora faction)[3][4][5] |
| Political position | Centre to left-wing |
| Colours | Amber |
| Slogan | Dios y Federación |
| Party flag | |
The Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal, PL), better known as Great Liberal Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Gran Partido Liberal de Venezuela, GPLV), was a political party in Venezuela, founded on August 20, 1840, by Antonio Leocadio Guzmán and Tomás Lander, through an editorial published by Guzmán at El Venezolano newspaper. It was the rival of the Conservative Party.
History
The party very successfully promoted liberal policies during the early days of the Republic. Several of the early presidents of the country were members of the Liberal Party, including José Tadeo Monagas (in office from 1 March 1847 – 5 February 1851 and 20 January 1855 – 15 March 1858) who abolished capital punishment for political crimes. President José Gregorio Monagas proclaimed that Venezuela was a nation free of slavery in an edict signed on 24 March 1854.[6] In 1863, under the leadership of President Juan Crisóstomo Falcón (in office 15 June 1863 – 25 April 1868), a member of the Liberal Party, Venezuela became the first country to totally abolish the death penalty for all crimes.[7]
Presidents of Venezuela
State of Venezuela (1830–1864)
| No. | Portrait | President(Birth–Death) | State | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | José Gregorio Monagas (1795–1858) | Monagas | 5 February 1851
– 20 January 1855 | ||
| (6) | José Tadeo Monagas (1784–1868) | Monagas | 20 January 1855
– 15 March 1858 | ||
United States of Venezuela (1864–1953)
| No. | Portrait | President (Birth–Death) | State | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Crisóstomo Falcón (1820–1870) | Falcón | 10 June 1863
– 25 April 1868 | |||
| 13 | Guillermo Tell Villegas (1823–1907) | Carabobo | 28 June 1868
– 20 February 1869 | ||
| (13) | Guillermo Tell Villegas (1823–1907) | Carabobo | 16 April 1870
– 27 April 1870 | ||
| 15 | Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829–1899) | Caracas | 27 April 1870
– 27 February 1877 | ||
| 16 | Francisco Linares Alcántara (1825–1878) | Aragua | 27 February 1877
– 30 November 1878 | ||
| 17 | José Gregorio Valera (1826–1896) | 30 November 1878
– 26 February 1879 | |||
| (15) | Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829–1899) | Caracas | 26 February 1879
– 26 April 1884 | ||
| 18 | Joaquín Crespo (1830–1898) | Aragua | 26 April 1884
– 15 September 1886 | ||
| (15) | Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829–1899) | Caracas | 15 September 1886
– 8 August 1887 | ||
| 20 | Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl (1826–1905) | Caracas | 2 July 1888
– 19 March 1890 | ||
| Raimundo Andueza Palacio (1846–1900) | Portuguesa | ||||
| (13) | Guillermo Tell Villegas (1823–1907) | Carabobo | 17 June 1892
– 31 August 1892 | ||
| 22 | Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido (1854–1949) | Barinas | 31 August 1892
– 7 October 1892 | ||
| Joaquín Crespo (1830–1898) | Aragua | ||||
| 23 | Ignacio Andrade (1839–1925) | Mérida | 28 February 1898
– 20 October 1899 | ||
Notes
- ^ http://servicio.bc.uc.edu.ve/postgrado/manongo39/art04.pdf
- ^ "Vida del valiente ciudadano general Ezequiel Zamora". 1898.
- ^ "Una perspectiva mutualista ante la crisis eléctrica (Segunda Parte)". 18 March 2010.
- ^ García Müller, Luis (2001). La Guerra Federal en Barinas 1859-1863. Barinas, Venezuela: Ediciones de la Universidad Ezequiel Zamora. p. 120
- ^ Rama, Carlos M. (1990). El anarquismo en América Latina. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Ayacucho. p. 150. ISBN 980-276-116-8.
- ^ Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, 1995. Page 34.
- ^ "Capital punishment | Definition, Debate, Examples, & Facts".
- ^ a b For the purposes of numbering, a presidency is defined as an uninterrupted period of time in office served by one person. For example, Carlos Soublette was both the 8th and 10th President because the two periods where he was president were not consecutive. A period during which a vice-president temporarily becomes acting president under the Constitution is not a presidency, because the president remains in office during such a period.