List of ministers of foreign affairs of Colombia explained

Post:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Body:Colombia
Native Name:Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia
Department:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent:Álvaro Leyva
Incumbentsince:7 August 2022
Appointerpost:President of Colombia
Inaugural:Pedro Gual Escandón
as Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Formation:7 October 1821
Succession:Five
Salary:COL$12,981,949 (monthly)[1]

The following is a list of the people who have served as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Until 1886, the Ministries were named Secretariats, thus the head of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs was titled Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Secretaries and ministers of foreign affairs

Republic of Colombia (1819—1831)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1Pedro Gual Escandón18211825Simón Bolívar Palacios
2José Rafael Revenga18251826
3José Manuel Restrepo Veléz18261827
4José Rafael Revenga18271828
5Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría18281828
6José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri18281829
7Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría18291830
8Domingo Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría18301830
9Vicente Borrero Costa18301831Joaquín de Mosquera y Arboleda
10Juan García del Río18311831
11José María del Castillo y Rada18311831
12José Félix Restrepo Vélez18311831
13José Francisco Pereira Martínez18311832Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña

Republic of New Granada (1832—1858)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1José Francisco Pereira Martínez24 October 18313 April 1832Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña
2Alejandro Vélez Barrientos3 April 18323 April 1833
3José Rafael Mosquera Hurtado3 April 18331 August 1833
4Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 August 183314 July 1835
5Francisco Soto Montes de Oca14 July 18354 September 1835
6Lino de Pombo O'Donnell4 September 183523 March 1836
7José Nazario Florentino González Vargas23 March 18363 May 1836
8Lino de Pombo O'Donnell3 May 183615 May 1838José Ignacio de Márquez Barreto
9Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez15 May 183816 July 1839
10Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda16 July 183930 July 1839
11Alejandro Vélez Barrientos30 July 183928 January 1840
12Eusebio Borrero y Costa28 January 184018 May 1840
13Miguel Chiari Jiménez18 May 184027 May 1840
14Judas Tadeo Landínez27 May 184021 September 1840
15Lino de Pombo O'Donnell21 September 18409 October 1840
16Miguel Chiari Jiménez9 October 184013 May 1841
17Mariano Ospina Rodríguez13 May 18412 October 1843Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez
18Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán2 October 18431 April 1845
19Juan María Gómez Pastor1 April 18459 October 1849Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
20Eusebio Borrero y Costa9 October 184928 May 1846
21Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen28 May 18467 July 1846
22Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo7 July 184613 October 1846
23Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen13 October 184620 July 1847
24Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra20 July 18477 February 1848
25Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen7 February 184819 June 1848
26José María Galaviz19 June 18485 December 1848
27Justo Arosemena Quesada5 December 184812 January 1849
28Cerbeleón Pinzón12 January 18491 April 1849
29Manuel Murillo Toro1 April 184916 May 1849José Hilario López Valdéz
30José Acevedo Tejada16 May 18497 June 1849
31Victoriano de Diego Paredes y Paramato7 June 18491 November 1851
32José María Plata Soto1 November 18511 March 1853
33Lorenzo María Lleras González1 March 185326 November 1853José María Obando del Campo
34José Caicedo Rojas26 November 18531 January 1854
35Cerbeleón Pinzón1 January 18541 April 1855
36Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 April 18551 April 1857
37Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
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Granadine Confederation (1858—1863)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
2Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen1 April 186118 July 1861Bartolomé Calvo Díaz
3José María Rojas Garrido18 July 186123 November 1861Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
4Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra23 November 18611 December 1862
5José María Rojas Garrido1 December 186210 February 1863
6José Hilario López Valdéz10 February 186314 May 1863

Republic of Colombia (1886—present)

Term start Term end Minister of Foreign Affairs
1887 1888 Carlos Holguín Mallarino
1891 1891 Antonio Roldán
1891 1895 Marco Fidel Suárez
1895 1896 José Maria Uricoechea
1897 1898 Jorge Holguín
1897 1898 Antonio Gómez Restrepo
1898 1899 Felipe Fermín Paul
1899 1900 Carlos Cuervo Márquez
1900 1901 Carlos Martínez Silva
1901 1902 Antonio José Uribe
1902 1903 Felipe F. Paúl
1903 1904 Luis Carlos Rico
1904 1904 Francisco de Paula Mateus
1904 1904 Enrique Cortés
1904 1906 Clímaco Calderón
1906 1908 Gral. Alfredo Vázquez Cobo
1908 1908 Gral. Marceliano Vargas
1908 1909 Francisco José Urrutia
1909 1909 Guillermo Camacho
1909 1909 Carlos Cuervo Márquez
1909 1909 Marco Fidel Suárez
1909 1910 Carlos Calderón
1910 1911 Enrique Olaya Herrera
1911 1912 José María González Valencia
1912 1914 Francisco José Urrutia
1914 1917 Miguel Abadía Méndez
1917 1918 Pedro Antonio Molina
1918 1918 Jorge Holguín
1918 1919 Pedro Antonio Molina
1919 1920 Hernando Holguín y Caro
1920 1920 Francisco Montaña
1920 1921 Laureano García Ortiz
1921 1921 José Vicente Concha
1921 1921 Carlos Adolfo Urueta
1921 1922 Enrique Olaya Herrera
1922 1922 Antonio José Uribe
1922 1922 Lucas Caballero Barrera
1922 1922 Carlos Adolfo Urueta
1922 1925 Jorge Vélez
1925 1926 Eduardo Restrepo Sáenz
1926 1927 Marco Fidel Suárez
1927 1930 Carlos Uribe
1930 1930 Francisco Samper Madrid
1930 1930 Eduardo Santos Montejo
1930 1931 Raimundo Rivas
1931 1935 Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
1935 1935 Enrique Olaya Herrera
1935 1935 Francisco Samper Madrid
1935 1936 Ernesto González Piedrahita
1936 1937 Jorge Soto del Corral
1937 1938 Gabriel Turbay
1938 1938 Antonio Rocha
1938 1940 Francisco Samper Madrid
1940 1942 Luis López de Mesa
1942 1943 Gabriel Turbay
1943 1943 Francisco José Chaux
1943 1943 Gabriel Turbay
1943 1944 Carlos Lozano y Lozano
1944 1945 Darío Echandía Olaya
1945 1945 Alberto Lleras Camargo
1945 1946 Fernando Londoño y Londoño
1946 1946 Francisco Umaña Bernal
1946 1947 Carlos Lozano y Lozano
1947 1947 Luis López de Mesa
1947 1948 Domingo Esguerra Plata
1948 1948 Laureano Gómez Castro
1948 1949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel
1949 1949 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz
1949 1949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel
1949 1950 Eliseo Arango
1950 1950 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
1950 1952 Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo
1952 1953 Juan Uribe Holguín
1953 1953 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz
1953 1956 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
1956 1957 José Manuel Rivas Sacconi
1957 1958 Carlos Sanz de Santamaría
1958 1961 Julio César Turbay Ayala
1961 1962 José Joaquín Caicedo Castilla
1962 1963 José Antonio Montalvo
1963 1963 Fernando Londoño y Londoño
1963 1965 Fernando Gómez Martínez
1965 1966 Castor Jaramillo Arrubla
1966 1968 Germán Zea Hernández
1968 1970 Alfonso López Michelsen
1970 1974 Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa
1974 1978 Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
1978 1981 Diego Uribe Vargas
1981 1982 Carlos Lemos Simmonds
1982 1984 Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo
1984 1986 Augusto Ramírez Ocampo
1986 1990 Cnel. Julio Londoño Paredes
1990 1991 Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa
1991 1994 Noemí Sanín Posada
1994 1996 Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña
1996 1998 María Emma Mejía Vélez
1998 1998 Camilo Reyes Rodríguez
1998 2002 Guillermo Fernández de Soto
2002 2006 Carolina Barco Isakson
2006 2007 María Consuelo Araújo Castro
2007 2008 Fernando Araújo Perdomo
2008 2010 Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde
2010 2018 María Ángela Holguín
2018 2019 Carlos Holmes Trujillo
2019 2021 Claudia Blum
2021 2022 Marta Lucía Ramírez
2022 imcumbet Álvaro Leyva

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Decreto No. 0853 de 2012. Colombia, Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic. 3 December 2012. Bogotá. 3. Spanish. 25 April 2012.
  2. Book: Cadena, Pedro Ignacio. Anales Diplomáticos de Colombia. 1878. Imprenta de Manuel J. Barrera. Bogotá. 4654242. 33–34. Official. 10 December 2014. Spanish.