Santiago Pérez de Manosalba
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Santiago Pérez de Manosalba (23 May of 1830, Zipaquirá, 5 August of 1900, Paris) was a writer, educator, journalist and Colombian politician, whom occupied the Presidency of Colombia from 1874 to 1876. In his mandate it was characterized by the beginning of works of the Railroad of the North and the foundation of the Colombian Academy of the Language and also is known to occupy the Ministries of Interior and Outer Relations from 1864 to 1866.
He was director of the National University of Colombia. It participated in the overthrow of President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera and was Ambassador in Washington from 1868 to 1873. Chosen President of the Republic in 1874, he initiated the construction of the Railroad of the North, but its mandate because of the agitations promoted by Rafael Núñez could not finish. It followed in the political fight, was exiled in 1893 and it died in Paris three years later.
It left some writings that for being only unpublished editions or, little are known: The Manual of the Citizen, On the convenience and the civilizadora Fecundity of Ahorro, wrote a dialogue of he himself title and a Spanish Grammar, unpublished.
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