Camilo Torres Tenorio

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is Torres and the second or maternal family name is Tenorio.
Camilo Torres Tenorio
Vice President
Manuel Rodríguez Torices
Preceded byTriumvirate
Manuel Rodríguez Torices,
Antonio Villavicencio,
José Miguel Pey de Andrade
Succeeded byJosé Fernández Madrid
Personal details
BornNovember 22, 1766
Universidad Santo Tomás
  • Leader of Congress acting in rebellion against Antonio Nariño’s Government.

José Camilo Clemente de Torres Tenorio (November 22, 1766 – October 5, 1816) was a Colombian politician. He is credited as being an early founder of the nation due to his role in early struggles for independence from Spain.[1]

Biography

Camilo Torres Tenorio

Torres was born in

Colegio del Rosario, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Canonical Law in June of 1790, and a J.D degree in 1791.[2] He decided to settle in Santafé, where he opened an attorney's office.[3]

Torres married María Francisca Prieto y Ricaurte in 1802 in Bogotá. They had six children.[3]

Torres was part of a generation that had witnessed the Insurrection of the Comuneros in 1781, and had experienced the independence of the United States in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. Antonio Nariño had translated into Spanish the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" in 1794, and had spread the influence of these ideas all throughout Latin America. This translation led to Nariño being exiled, and many of the students in the Colegio del Rosario were in turn persecuted, including Torres.

With the abdication of

Supreme Central Junta in 1809, particularly as it was supposed to include representation from the American colonies. This representation, however, was very small and insignificant, and this led to Torres writing his famous "Memorial de agravios" (Memorial of Grievances), where he complained about the lack of equality for American Spaniards and the scarce attention that the American colonies received from the Spanish crown. Torres, however, praised the Spanish authority and expressed his desire that the colonies would not secede.[4][5]

Statue of Camilo Torres Tenorio in Popayán

The dissolution of the

Act of Independence of the Supreme Junta of Santafé. Torres was also involved in finding some understanding with the Spanish crown.[2]

la Patria Boba
.

Meanwhile, king

Juan Sámano after the ship departed without him and others in July, 1816.[3] He was sent to Santafé, where he was executed by a firing squad for treason against the Spanish monarchy
on October 5, 1816.

After his death, all of his possessions were confiscated and his family was stranded in poverty. When Bolívar became president he decided to support them by donating part of his own stipend every month. Camilo Torres' face has appeared in the $2 and $50 Colombian peso banknotes.

References

  1. ISBN 9781412821520
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  2. ^ a b "Camilo Torres - Enciclopedia | Banrepcultural". enciclopedia.banrepcultural.org. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  3. ^ a b c "Camilo Torres Tenorio | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  4. ^ "El Memorial de Agravios". Señal Memoria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  5. ^ Lleras de la Fuente, Carlos (1959). "Camilo Torres y el memorial de agravios". Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico. 2: 10–11.


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