José Ignacio de Cavero y Cárdenas (29 June 1757 – 17 August 1834) was a New Spain and Colombian lawyer and politician. A Precursor of the Independence of Colombia, as the 4th President of the

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of Cartagena de Indias he was a signatory of the

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of the Cartagena Province from the Viceroyalty of the New Granada and the

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, establishing a republic based in the concept of

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, and abolishing the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Cartagena would eventually join with other provinces to create the

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under President Simón Bolívar, and was appointed in 1824 by Vice President Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña to serve as the 3rd

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Intendant of the Magdalena River and the Isthmus province, which now encompassed the former province of Cartagena as well as the provinces of Santa Marta,

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, and the

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Personal life

Born on 29 June 1757 in

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then part of the

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, his parents were Diego Cavero Castro and Juana de Díaz Cárdenas.

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Declaration of Independence of Cartagena
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cavero Y Cardenas, Jose Ignacio De 1757 births 1834 deaths People from Mérida, Yucatán Colombian people of Mexican descent 18th-century Colombian lawyers People of the Colombian War of Independence