Juan Crisóstomo Falcón [SEP] position held
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón y Zavarce (27 January 1820 – 29 April 1870) was President of Venezuela from 1863 to 1868.
Member of the liberal Venezuelan Federalist Party, he first served as president of Venezuela as the supreme chief of a rebel movement in August 1859, but the rebellion was soon crushed. He served as the recognized president of Venezuela from 1863 to 1868, when a conservative revolution headed by General José Tadeo Monagas ended his term as president. Also, he was briefly overthrown in 1865.
President Juan Crisóstomo Falcón designated him as War and Navy minister (1864), resigning to the position after being imprisoned for the charges of conspiring.
In 1866, was named Head of the General Staff of the Army. On 6 April 1868, in "Güigüe", had an interview with Miguel Antonio Rojas, Head of the Army of the "Revolución Azul" (Blue Revolution), and agreed the suspension of the hostilities by the lapse of 15 days, in order to discuss a treaty of peace, which