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Pedro Gual Escandón

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Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat For other uses, see Gual (disambiguation).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gual and the second or maternal family name is Escandón.
Pedro Gual
President of Venezuela
In office
15 March 1858 – 18 March 1858
Preceded byJosé Tadeo Monagas
Succeeded byJulián Castro
President of Venezuela
In office
2 August 1859 – 29 September 1859
Preceded byJulián Castro
Succeeded byManuel Felipe de Tovar
President of Venezuela
In office
20 May 1861 – 29 August 1861
Preceded byManuel Felipe de Tovar
Succeeded byJosé Antonio Páez
1st Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
In office
7 October 1821 – 17 September 1825
PresidentSimón Bolívar
Preceded by*Office created
Succeeded byJosé Rafael Revenga y Hernández
Personal details
Born(1783-01-17)17 January 1783
Caracas, Venezuela
Died6 May 1862(1862-05-06) (aged 79)
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Political partyConservative Party
SpouseRosa María Domínguez
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Pedro José Ramón Gual Escandón (17 January 1783 – 6 May 1862), was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat.

During the Venezuelan War of Independence he came to the United States to buy weapons for the Patriots. In 1815 he came to stay in the home of Manuel Torres. With Torres and other agents he helped organize General Francisco Xavier Mina's ill-fated expedition to Mexico, with Gual acting as Mina's press agent. Gual was one of the men who signed Gregor MacGregor's commission to invade Spanish Florida thru Amelia Island in 1817, which offended President James Monroe's administration; thereafter he left the U.S.

In 1824 as chancellor of Great Colombia he negotiated with the U.S. diplomat Richard Clough Anderson Jr. and concluded the Anderson–Gual Treaty, the first bilateral treaty that the U.S. signed with another American state. He was the president of Venezuela for three periods (1858, 1859, and 1861) and a member of the Conservative Centralist party.

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References

  1. Bowman 1970, pp. 44–50.

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Preceded byJosé Tadeo Monagas President of Venezuela
1858 		Succeeded byJulián Castro
Preceded byJulián Castro President of Venezuela
1859 		Succeeded byManuel Felipe de Tovar
Preceded byManuel Felipe de Tovar President of Venezuela
1861 		Succeeded byJosé Antonio Páez
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Since 1830
Acting / interim / caretaker presidents shown in italics
Recognized by the National Assembly as "interim president" during the Venezuelan presidential crisis until 2023
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