| Elvira Cárdenas | |
| Office: | First Lady of Colombia |
| President: | José Vicente Concha |
| Term Start: | August 7, 1914 |
| Term End: | August 7, 1918 |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Predecessor: | Isabel Gaviria Duque |
| Successor: | María Antonia Suárez |
| Birth Name: | Elvira Cárdenas Mosquera |
| Birth Date: | 12 April 1870 |
| Birth Place: | Popayán, Cauca, Colombia |
| Death Place: | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Spouse: | José Vicente Concha |
| Parents: | Jeremías Cárdenas (father) Clelia Mosquera (mother) |
Elvira Cárdenas Mosquera (April 12, 1870 - June 22, 1935) was a Colombian housewife and socialite, serving as First Lady of Colombia from 1914 and 1918 through her marriage to the 8th President of Colombia José Vicente Concha.[1] [2] [3]
Cárdenas Mosquera was born on April 12, 1870, in Popayán, Cauca, to Jeremias Cárdenas and Clelia Mosquera, daughter of Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera who served as the 1st and 4th President of the United States of Colombia, as well as the 4th and 3rd President of the Granadine Confederation and New Granada, both predecessor states to current Colombia.[4]