José León Sandoval de la Cerda (1789 – 1854) was a Nicaraguan politician, member of the short lived centrist Republican Party, who served as 4th Supreme Director of Nicaragua from 4 April 1845 to 12 March 1847. A mestizo descendant of the conquistador

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, Sandoval was a justice of the peace at the close of the colonial period in his native Granada, but he also worked in transporting goods on

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and the Río San Juan. Resentful of the privileges of Spanish officials and wealthier creoles, Sandoval supported independence from Spain and then opposed Nicaraguan incorporation into Iturbide's

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. In 1825 he became political chief of Granada and later served in other government positions while rising in military rank. A fervent unionist, he also served Francisco Morazán's federal government in San Salvador. He was supreme director of Nicaragua during the violent struggles among the

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Francisco Malespín Francisco Malespín Herrera (1806 – 25 November 1846) was a Salvadoran military officer and politician, elected as the president of El Salvador in 1844. He served from 7 February 1844 to 15 February 1845, when he was deposed by his vice pres ...

, ,

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, and . Although a liberal, Sandoval remained loyal to the elected governments, and under the

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, he directed Granada's defense against the siege begun in May 1854 by Máximo Jérez, during the beginning stages of the

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. Brigadier General Sandoval died in this defense and was buried in Granada.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandoval, Jose Leon Presidents of Nicaragua

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