Enriqueta Vásquez de Ospina

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vásquez, the second or maternal family name is Jaramillo, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Ospina.

Enriqueta Vásquez de Ospina
c. 1880.
Born
Enriqueta Vásquez Jaramillo

1832 (1832)
Medellín, Antioquia, New Granada
DiedDecember 10, 1886(1886-12-10) (aged 53–54)
Medellín, Antioquía, Colombia
Resting placeSan Pedro Cemetery Museum
Known forSpouse of the president of the Granadine Confedetarion (1858–1861)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
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(m. 1855; died 1885)​
Children
  • Tulio
  • Pedro
  • Santiago
  • María
  • Mariano

Enriqueta Vásquez de Ospina (née Vásquez Jaramillo; c. 1832 – December 10, 1886) was a businesswoman and the wife of Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, first President of the Granadine Confederation from 1858 to 1861. Among her children are Pedro Nel Ospina, the 11th president of Colombia, and Mariano Ospina Vázquez, the minister of War under Carlos Eugenio Restrepo. Vásquez de Ospina, María Michelsen de López and María Cristina Arango are the only three women to be the wife of one Colombian president and the mother of another.

Enriqueta Vásquez Jaramillo was born in the city of Medellín. She met Mariano Ospina Rodríguez at the age of twenty-two and they married in 1855. The couple had five children between 1857 and 1868. Vásquez de Ospina assumed the role of social hostess at the San Carlos Palace during her husband's term as president of the Granadine Confederation and during the country's transition from the New Granada to the Granadine Confederation in 1858.

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