Tomás Herrán y Mosquera (September 21, 1843 – 1904), a
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
n diplomat, signed and became a namesake of the
Hay–Herrán Treaty of 1903.
Family
Herrán was the son of
Pedro Alcántara Herrán and the maternal grandson of
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, who both served as
President of Colombia
The president of Colombia (President of the Republic) is the head of state and head of government of Colombia. The president heads the executive branch of the Government of Colombia, national government and is the commander-in-chief of the Mil ...
.
Education
Herrán graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in 1863 and an M.A. in 1868. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Georgetown in 1900.
At the time of the Hay–Herrán Treaty, Herrán served as Colombian
chargé d'affaires
A (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is Frenc ...
in the United States of America. Herrán's papers were later published as ''The Letters of Tomás Herrán and the Panama Crisis, 1900–1903'', edited by
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr.
References
External links
Acquisition of the Panama Canal- Historical Text Archive
1843 births
1904 deaths
Georgetown University alumni
Philodemic Society members
Colombian expatriates in the United States
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