POLITICAL LIFE

Tomás Cipiriano de Mosquera was born in Popayan on 26th september 1798, this character is very influencial in the military and political life of the nineteenth century and was participated in several in 4 time president of a non consecutively.

Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera busied an curule congress in name of the Cauca State. Then, in 1838 the President José Ignacio de Marquez, to designate as Naval Secretary. Subsequently, in 1845 he was presidential candidate for the Liberal Party, over yours opponents Rufino Cuervo and Eusebio Caro. He won presidential elections.

In yours measure, restored the navegation in vapour ship in the Magdalena River; He reopen the Dique´s Canal; He founded the Military College; He realized monetary reform. He iniciate construction the National Capitol or Parlament Building; He implanted the decimal metric system; He stimulated the saving; He initiate the constrution of Panama Railroad and he impulsed the layman education.

In 1860, He was governor of Cauca State in the presidency by Mariano Ospina Rodriguez in the Granadine Confederation. Since 1857, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was rebel with the president because he won the presidential elections and, so, separated the liberals of the goverment. In 1861, Mosquera had coup de etat to Rodriguez and, He was conquest presidency for military medium.