Enrique Olaya Herrera
FollowBorn 12 November 1880 in Guateque, Boyacá, Colombia
Died 18 February 1937 (aged 56)
Enrique Alfredo Olaya Herrera (Guateque, November 12, 1880-Rome, February 18, 1937) was a Colombian journalist, lawyer, diplomat and politician, member of the Colombian Liberal Party.
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He was president of Colombia between 1930 and 1934, being the first Liberal to hold office after the long stay of the Conservatives in power, a period known as the Conservative Hegemony. Enrique Olaya Herrera became president representing a bipartisan coalition known as the National Concentration. He belonged to a liberal family and as such participated in the Thousand Days War.
