Cecilia Caballero Blanco | |
Office: | First Lady of Colombia |
Term Label: | In role |
President: | Alfonso López Michelsen |
Predecessor: | María Cristina Arango Vega |
Successor: | Nydia Quintero Turbay |
Office2: | First Lady of Cesar |
Governor2: | Alfonso López Michelsen |
Term Start2: | 21 December 1967 |
Term End2: | 14 August 1968 |
Predecessor2: | Position established |
Successor2: | Margarita Puche Lacoutire |
Birth Name: | Cecilia Caballero Blanco |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1913 |
Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Death Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia[1] |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Party: | Liberal |
Cecilia Caballero Blanco (30 September 1913 – 13 August 2019) was the wife of the 24th President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.[2]
Cecilia was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogotá to Julio Caballero Barrera and Mary Blanco Barroso.[2] She married Alfonso López Michelsen, lawyer and politician on 23 October 1938. They had three sons: Alfonso, an economist and diplomat, Juan Manuel, and Felipe. She turned 100 in September 2013,[3] and died on 13 August 2019 at the age of 105.[4] [5] She was also the Longest lived First lady of Colombia.
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