Manuel Antonio Sanclemente

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Manuel Antonio Sanclemente (September 19, 1813 - March 19, 1902) was President of Colombia between 1898 and 1900.

Sanclemente was born in Buga on September 19, 1813. He studied at the University of Cauca in Popayan. He completed his college in 1837, as a lawyer. He was elected to the position of magistrate for the Supreme Court of Colombia in 1854. During his term, the president of Colombia, Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, named him the Secretary of Government and War, a position he would serve between April 1, 1857 and July 18, 1861.

He became the President of the Republic of Colombia in 1898. On November 3, 1898, he took the oath as President of the Republic of Colombia; in 1900 the Vicepresident José Manuel Marroquín forced him to resign. During his term, his government broke out of the Thousand Days War.

He died in Villeta, Cundinamarca on March 19, 1902.

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