Pedro Gual Escandón Explained

Pedro Gual
Order:President of Venezuela
Term Start:15 March 1858
Term End:18 March 1858
Predecessor:José Tadeo Monagas
Successor:Julián Castro
Order2:President of Venezuela
Term Start2:2 August 1859
Term End2:29 September 1859
Predecessor2:Julián Castro
Successor2:Manuel Felipe de Tovar
Order3:President of Venezuela
Term Start3:20 May 1861
Term End3:29 August 1861
Predecessor3:Manuel Felipe de Tovar
Successor3:José Antonio Páez
Order4:1st
Office4:Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
Term Start4:7 October 1821
Term End4:17 September 1825
Predecessor4:
  • Office created
Successor4:José Rafael Revenga y Hernández
President4:Simón Bolívar
Birth Date:1783 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Death Place:Guayaquil, Ecuador
Signature:Pedro Gual Signature.svg
Spouse:Rosa María Domínguez
Party:Conservative Party

Pedro José Ramón Gual Escandón (17 January 1783 – 6 May 1862), was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat.

During the Venezuelan War of Independence he came to the United States to buy weapons for the Patriots. In 1815 he came to stay in the home of Manuel Torres. With Torres and other agents he helped organize General Francisco Xavier Mina's ill-fated expedition to Mexico, with Gual acting as Mina's press agent. Gual was one of the men who signed Gregor MacGregor's commission to invade Spanish Florida thru Amelia Island in 1817, which offended President James Monroe's administration; thereafter he left the U.S.

In 1824 as chancellor of Great Colombia he negotiated with the U.S. diplomat Richard Clough Anderson Jr. and concluded the Anderson–Gual Treaty, the first bilateral treaty that the U.S. signed with another American state. He was the president of Venezuela for three periods (1858, 1859, and 1861) and a member of the Conservative Centralist party.

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