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Telésforo Pedraza Ortega (24 July 1945 – 17 May 2023) was a Colombian politician, diplomat and lawyer.


Life

Born in
Tunja Tunja () is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2018 it had a population of 172,548 inhabitants. It is the capital of Boyacá department an ...
, Boyacá, Pedraza studied law at the
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. A
Colombian Conservative Party The Colombian Conservative Party ( es, Partido Conservador Colombiano) is a conservative political party in Colombia. The party was formally established in 1849 by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and José Eusebio Caro. The Conservative party along ...
member, Pedraza served as Councilor of Bogotá, Member of the Chamber of Representatives for the same city on five occasions (2002–2004; 2005–2006; 2009–2010; 2010–2014; 2014–2018),
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and Secretary of Education of Bogotá. He lost the leadership of the Conservative Party list in Bogotá in the 2018 legislative elections, and lost the re-election. Pedraza was Ambassador to Netherlands and consul in Romania and Sweden. Pedraza died in
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on 17 May 2023, at the age of 77.


References

1945 births 2023 deaths People from Tunja 20th-century Colombian lawyers Ambassadors of Colombia to the Netherlands Members of the Senate of Colombia Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia Colombian Conservative Party politicians Free University of Colombia alumni {{Colombia-politician-stub