Francisco Gómez (El Salvador President)

Francisco Gómez de Altamirano y de Elizondo (* August 5, 1796 in Cartago, † May 1838 in Guatemala) was from 15 November 1835 to February 1, 1836 Jefe Supremo of the province of El Salvador in the Central American confederation.

Life

His parents were Bartola de Elizondo and Jose Luis Goméz de Altamirano He was brought as a child to El Salvador, where he grew up in a family Rodríguez in Metapán.

In Guatemala City, he studied at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala jurisprudence. He married Catalina Rodríguez, in Metapán, where he led a budget and where his now widowed, and retired father moved.

In November 1811, when the first riots of the Proceres he was a member of the Cabildo de Españoles of San Salvador. His secret sympathies were always with the Proceres. He was a member of the Partido Liberal.

He later moved to San Salvador where he was a Regidor of the Cabildo de Españoles. He edited pamphlets called Instrucciones, which campaigned for liberal ideas. With the proclamation of independence in 1821, he helped the patriotic cause. He was an opponent of annexation to the Mexican Empire from 1822 to 1823. In the war against the annexation supporters he was promoted to Capitan.

In 1826 he was elected Members of Parliament, as El Salvador and Honduras wanted to separate from the Central American confederation he was in the provincial army of El Salvador.

Later, he was one of the stewards of the liberal Morazán under the civil service, whose commands he obeyed.

Together with Timoteo Menéndez, he wore in Izalco on October 10, 1827 Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga the Jefe Supremo of the Central American Confederation, the conditions of peace with the province of El Salvador before.

Morazan snapped it as Jefe Supremo of the province of El Salvador, which he replaced Colonel Nicolás Espinoza.

Colonel Francisco Gómez was murdered in Guatemala.