Vicente Herrera Zeledón
Vicente Herrera Zeledón | |
|---|---|
| 10th President of Costa Rica | |
| In office 30 July 1876 – 11 September 1877 | |
| Preceded by | Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz |
| Succeeded by | Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez |
| Second Designate to the Presidency | |
| In office 22 May 1874 – 5 May 1875 | |
| President | Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez |
| Preceded by | Rafael Barroeta Baca |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Barroeta Baca |
| Secretary of Interior and Police | |
| In office 1 December 1873 – 8 May 1876 | |
| President | Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez |
| In office 15 February 1873 – 21 November 1873 | |
| President | Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez |
| 17th President of the Supreme Court | |
| In office 17 October 1856 – 29 April 1860 | |
| Preceded by | Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo |
| Succeeded by | José María Castro Madriz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vicente de las Mercedes Herrera Zeledón 20 January 1821 |
| Died | 10 November 1888 (aged 67) San José, Costa Rica |
| Party | Independent |
| Spouse |
Guadalupe Gutiérrez García
(m. 1853) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (LL.D.) |
| Occupation |
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Vicente de las Mercedes Herrera Zeledón (20 January 1821 – 10 November 1888) was a Costa Rican lawyer, judge and politician who served as the 7th President of Costa Rica from 1876 to 1877.[1] He came to power in the coup d'état that deposed President Aniceto Esquivel and resigned in favor of Gen. Tomás Guardia the following year.
Biography
He was the son of José Cleto Herrera Salazar (born 1798–1880) and Antonia Zeledón Masís (born in 1854). He graduated in philosophy in 1839 at the Teaching House of St. Thomas in San José, Costa Rica, and in May 1846 he moved to Guatemala, where he obtained in 1849 the title of doctor of law at the University of San Carlos Borromeo. He passed the bar in Costa Rica on 20 May 1850. He married on 18 December 1853 with Guadalupe Gutiérrez García, daughter of Atanasio Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal, president of the Superior Court of Justice of Costa Rica from 1832 to 1833, and María of Pilar García Ramírez, and with her had three children: Angélica, Vicente and Mercedes Herrera Gutiérrez.
Ideology
His ideology was characterized by its conservative and doctrinal positions related to the thinking of the Catholic Church, especially in education. He was President of the Board of Charity of San José, Notary Major of the Ecclesiastical Curia and Secretary of the Cabildo of the Diocese of Costa Rica.