José María Carreño
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Acting President of Venezuela
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| In office July 20, 1835 – August 20, 1835 |
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| Preceded by | José María Vargas |
| Succeeded by | Andrés Narvarte |
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| In office January 20, 1837 – March 11, 1837 |
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| Preceded by | Andrés Narvarte |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Soublette |
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| Born | March 19, 1792 Cúa, Miranda state, Venezuela |
| Died | May 18, 1849 Caracas, Venezuela |
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Jose Maria Carreño was a Venezuelan politician and military, Vice-president in the government of José María Vargas, and provisional President of Venezuela as interim caretaker in 1837. Important personage of the Venezuelan History. Jose Maria Carreño was the one who lent his shirt to Simón Bolívar, at the moments after his death. This hero has very few recognitions, and inexplicably there is not much information about him.
On January 20, 1837, in agreement with the constitution, concluded the period of Andrés Narvarte, being designated as president of Venezuela Jose Maria Carreño, in his quality of vice-president of the Government Council. Carreño exerted his functions with the collaboration of Felipe Fermín Paul like interior minister, José Felix Blanco in the War and Navy Ministry, and Manuel Maria Echeandía in Outer Relations. On March 11, 1837, Carlos Soublette was designated as vice-president of Venezuela, and on April 10, of that year, assumed the presidency of the Republic, position that Soublette carried out until concluding the constitutional period that Vargas initiated in 1835.
José María Carreño was mason in the 30rd degree.
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- (Spanish) José María Carreño
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