Liberal Party Partido Liberal | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Antonio Leocadio Guzmán |
| Founded | August 20, 1840 (1840-08-20) |
| Dissolved | 1899 (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] |
| Colours | Amber |
| Slogan | Dios y Federación |
| Party flag | |
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TheLiberal Party (Spanish:Partido Liberal,PL), better known asGreat Liberal Party of Venezuela (Spanish:Gran Partido Liberal de Venezuela,GPLV), was a political party inVenezuela, founded on August 20, 1840, byAntonio Leocadio Guzmán andTomás Lander, through an editorial published by Guzmán atEl Venezolano newspaper. It was the rival of theConservative Party.
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, includingJosé 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. PresidentJosé Gregorio Monagas proclaimed that Venezuela was a nation free ofslavery in an edict signed on 24 March 1854.[6] In 1863, under the leadership of PresidentJuan 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]
| No. | Portrait | President(Birth–Death) | State | Term of office | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |  | José Gregorio Monagas(1795–1858) | Monagas | 5 February 1851 –20 January 1855 | 6 (1851–55) | |
| (6) |  | José Tadeo Monagas(1784–1868) | Monagas | 20 January 1855 –15 March 1858 | 7 (1855–60) | |
| 8 |  | Pedro Gual Escandón(1783–1862) | Caracas | 15 March 1858 –18 March 1858 | ||
| 10 |  | Manuel Felipe de Tovar(1803–1866) | 29 September 1859 –20 May 1861 | |||
| 8 (1860–64) | ||||||
| (8) | | Pedro Gual Escandón(1783–1862) | Caracas | 20 May 1861 –29 August 1861 | ||
| No. | Portrait | President(Birth–Death) | State | Term of office | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 |  | Guillermo Tell Villegas(1823–1907) | Carabobo | 28 June 1868 –20 February 1869 | 9 (1864–73) | |
| (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 | ||
| 10 (1873–77) | ||||||
| 16 |  | Francisco Linares Alcántara(1825–1878) | Aragua | 27 February 1877 –30 November 1878 | 11 (1877–82) | |
| 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 | ||
| 12 (1882–88) | ||||||
| 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 | _by_Cristobal_Rojas.jpg) | Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl(1826–1905) | Caracas | 2 July 1888 –19 March 1890 | 13 (1888–90) | |
| (13) | | Guillermo Tell Villegas(1823–1907) | Carabobo | 17 June 1892 –31 August 1892 | 14 (1890–94) | |
| 22 |  | Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido(1854–1949) | Barinas | 31 August 1892 –7 October 1892 | ||
| 23 |  | Ignacio Andrade(1839–1925) | Mérida | 28 February 1898 –20 October 1899 | 16 (1898–08) | |
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