Rosalío Cortés

Rosalío Cortés Sánchez (1820–1884) was the 35th President of Nicaragua, serving from 19 October to 15 November 1857; he ruled jointly with Gregorio Juárez in a government junta.[1]

Cortés was born in 1820 in León, Nicaragua and died in 1884 in Masaya. He was president of the Nicaraguan Congress in 1849.[2] He and Juárez, both Afro-Nicaraguans from León, were the most trusted advisors to General, and later President, Tomás Martínez, who succeeded them in the presidency.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1887). History of Central America ... History Company. p. 363.
  2. ^ Cardenal Tellería, Marco A. (2000). Nicaragua y su Historia - Cronología del acontecer histórico y construcción de la nación Nicaragüense. Managua: Banco Mercantil. ISBN 99924-0-064-1.
  3. ^ Gudmundson, Lowell; Wolfe, Justin (2010-10-18). Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place. Duke University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-8223-9313-9.


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