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Simón Bolívar

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Simón Bolívar
2nt Preses o Venezuela
In office
August 6, 1813 – July 2, 1814
Precedit biCristóbal Mendoza
In office
15 Februar 1819 – 17 December 1819
Succeedit biJosé Antonio Páez
Preses o Gran Colombia
(Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama)
In office
17 December 1819 – 4 Mey 1830
Vice PresesFrancisco de Paula Santander
Succeedit biDomingo Caycedo
1st Preses o Bolivie
In office
12 August 1825 – 29 December 1825
Succeedit biAntonio José de Sucre
Preses o Peru
In office
17 Februar 1824 – 28 Januar 1827
Precedit biJosé Bernardo de Tagle
Succeedit biAndrés de Santa Cruz
Personal details
Born24 Julie 1783(1783-07-24)
Caracas, Caiptaincy General o Venezuela, Spainyie Empire
Dee'd17 December 1830(1830-12-17) (aged 47)
Santa Marta, New Granada
Spoose(s)María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa
ReligionRoman Catholic
Signatur

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios, commonly kent as Simón Bolívar (Spaingie pronunciation: [siˈmon boˈliβar]; 24 Julie 1783 – 17 December 1830), wis a Venezuelan militar an politeecal leader. Thegither wi José de San Martín, he played a key role in Hispanic Americae's successful struggle for unthirldom frae the Spaingie Empire.

Follaein the triumph ower the Spaingie Monarchy, Bolívar participatit in the foondation o the first union o independent naitions in Latin Americae, which wis namit Gran Colombie, an o which he wis preses frae 1819 tae 1830.

Bolívar is regardit in Latin Americae as a hero, visionar, revolutionar, an liberator. Durin his short life, he led Bolivie, Colombie, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, an Venezuela tae unthirldom, an helped lay the foondations for democratic ideology in muckle o Laitin Americae.