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Cristóbal Mendoza

1772 - 1829

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José Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza y Montilla (23 June 1772 – 8 February 1829), commonly known as Cristóbal Mendoza, was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, writer, and academic. Cristobal is best known for serving as the first official President of Venezuela from 1811 to 1812. After earning a master's degree in philosophy in Caracas and his doctor utriusque juris (Doctor of Canon and Civil Law) in the Dominican Republic, early in his professional career he served in various law firms in Trujillo, Mérida, and Caracas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cristóbal Mendoza has received more than 75,079 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Cristóbal Mendoza is the 11,759th most popular politician (down from 11,446th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 35th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Venezuelan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cristóbal Mendoza ranks 11,759 out of 19,576Before him are Hetephernebti, Abe Masahiro, Hippolyte Carnot, Romuald Traugutt, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Yusuf III of Granada. After him are Margherita Maria Farnese, Phoolan Devi, Keith Mitchell, Nikola Špirić, Vladislav Surkov, and João do Canto e Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Cristóbal Mendoza ranks 34Before him are Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Luke Howard, Friedrich Gilly, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, and Hồ Xuân Hương. After him are Martha Jefferson Randolph, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Vicente López Portaña, Frans Michael Franzén, Manuel José Quintana, and Paul Louis Courier. Among people deceased in 1829, Cristóbal Mendoza ranks 34Before him are John Adams, Anouvong, Juan Ignacio Molina, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Adam Müller, and George Dawe. After him are Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, James Smithson, Cornelio Saavedra, Wojciech Bogusławski, and John Mawe.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Cristóbal Mendoza ranks 36 out of 183Before him are José Gregorio Hernández (1864), Jaime Lusinchi (1924), Raúl Leoni (1905), Eleazar López Contreras (1883), Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829), and Wolfgang Larrazábal (1911). After him are Pedro Carmona (1941), Patricia Velásquez (1971), Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1944), Luis Herrera Campins (1925), Juan Guaidó (1983), and Jesús Rafael Soto (1923).

Among POLITICIANS In Venezuela

Among politicians born in Venezuela, Cristóbal Mendoza ranks 23Before him are Octavio Lepage (1923), Jaime Lusinchi (1924), Raúl Leoni (1905), Eleazar López Contreras (1883), Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829), and Wolfgang Larrazábal (1911). After him are Pedro Carmona (1941), Luis Herrera Campins (1925), Juan Guaidó (1983), Germán Suárez Flamerich (1907), Carlos Soublette (1789), and Isaías Medina Angarita (1897).