Víctor Mosquera Chaux

Víctor Mosquera Chaux
Víctor Mosquera Chaux
24th Colombia Ambassador to the United States
	In office; 21 December 1987 – 25 November 1990
President	Virgilio Barco Vargas
Preceded by	Francisco Posada de La Peña
Succeeded by	Jaime García Parra
10th Colombia Ambassador to the United Kingdom
	In office; 3 June 1967 – 21 April 1970
President	Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Preceded by	Alfredo Araújo Grau
Succeeded by	Camilo de Brigard Silva
Governor of Cauca
	In office; 4 February 1959 – 11 July 1960
President	Alberto Lleras Camargo
Preceded by	Francisco Lemos Arboleda
Succeeded by	Miguel Ángel Zúñiga
Senator of Colombia
	In office; 20 July 1970 – 20 July 1974
	In office; 20 July 1962 – 3 June 1967
	In office; 20 July 1958 – 4 February 1959
Member of the Colombian Chamber of Representatives
	In office; 20 July 1947 – 9 November 1949
Constituency	Cauca Department
Personal details
Born	1 October 1919; Popayán, Cauca, Colombia
Died	5 November 1997 (aged 78); Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Resting place	Templo de San Francisco; Popayán, Cauca, Colombia
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Cecilia Paz Salazar
Children	Olga Lucía Mosquera Paz
Alma mater	University of Cauca
Profession	Lawyer

Víctor Mosquera Chaux (October 1, 1919 – November 5, 1997) was a Colombian lawyer and diplomat. A Liberal party politician, he served as Councilman of Popayán, Assemblymean of Cauca, Chamber Representative for Cauca, Senator of Colombia,^[1] and Governor of Cauca.^[2] He also served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States,^[3] and Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom.^[4]

In February 1981, Mosquera held executive power for eight days as Presidential Designate, while President Julio César Turbay Ayala was indisposed due to health reasons.^[5]

References[edit]

^ "Nunca Acepto Ser Ministro" [He Never Accepted Being a Minister]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1997-11-11. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
^ "Información General [del Departamento del Cauca]" [General Information [of the Department of Cauca]] (DOC) (in Spanish). National Administrative Department of Statistics. 2001-09-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
^ "Diplomatic Representation for Republic of Colombia". Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States. 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
^ "List of Colombian Ambassadors to the United Kingdom". Colombian Embassy to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 2007. Archived from the original on 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
^ Cárdenas Madrid, Marlon Rafael (October 1997). "Designados presidenciales de Colombia 1844-1993" [Presidential Designates of Colombia 1844-1993]. Revista Credencial Historia (in Spanish) (94). Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 2010-09-26.

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