Francisco Castellón

Francisco Castellón Sanabria (* 1815, † September 8, 1855 ) was a lawyer and 1854-1856 Director Supremo of Nicaragua.

Castellón was under the Director Supremo Patricio Rivas, Ministro General. From the Director Supremo Pablo Buitrago he was in 1841 removed from office and replaced by the Supremo Director Manuel Perez in 1843. In 1844, he was Ambassador of Nicaragua in the UK and later in France. Under the Supreme Director José Laureano Pineda (1851-1853), he was a minister again.

In May 1854, he co-chaired with General Máximo Jerez Tellería, the uprising of the Partido Democrático ( liberal ), which was directed against the transfer of the government from Leon to Granada by Fruto Chamorro Pérez. On 16 June 1854 he announced a decree that forbade the government's support of Chamorro based in Granada. In October 1854 Francisco Castellón Sanabria concluded a contract with the U.S. military service Byron Cole, who established the delivery of 200 men who were cited in June 1855 by William Walker.

After the first battle of Rivas on June 29, 1855 William Walker took the seventh point of the Contractes as the legal basis that he was naturalized as Nicaraguans and had himself elected by his brothers in arms as President of Nicaragua. The first military actions of the mercenaries failed and on September 8, 1855 Francisco Castellón died in office of cholera. His successor as Director Supremo was of Licenciado Nazario Escoto.