{"id":"cristobal-mendoza","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cristobal-mendoza","language":"en","name":"Cristóbal Mendoza","name_en":"Cristóbal Mendoza","name_ne":null,"description":"President of Venezuela (1772-1829)","headline":"President of Venezuela (1772-1829)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"José Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza y Montilla, commonly known as Cristóbal Mendoza, was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, writer, and academic. Cristóbal 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 in the Dominican Republic, early in his professional career he served in various law firms in Trujillo, Mérida, and Caracas. He moved to Barinas in 1796 to practice law, and in 1807 was elected Mayor of Barinas. In 1810, Mendoza joined the insurgent movement started by wealthy Caracan citizens against the Spanish crown, and in 1811 was elected to represent the province of Barinas in the newly founded Constituent Congress of Venezuela. Days later he was appointed the first president of the First Republic of Venezuela, a role he shared as part of a triumvirate. Until his term ended in March 1812, Mendoza began the war for independence against the parts of Venezuela that still supported the Spanish monarchy, authored the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, and also took part in constructing the first Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"23 June 1772","date":"1772-06-23"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Trujillo","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1020535"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"8 February 1829","date":"1829-02-08"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Caracas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1533"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Venezuela","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"lawyer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40348"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Central University of Venezuela","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936476"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"President of Venezuela","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11942698"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_Mendoza","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Cristóbal Mendoza born?","a":"Cristóbal Mendoza was born on 23 June 1772 in Trujillo."},{"q":"What positions has Cristóbal Mendoza held?","a":"Positions held by Cristóbal Mendoza include: President of Venezuela."},{"q":"Where did Cristóbal Mendoza study?","a":"Cristóbal Mendoza was educated at Central University of Venezuela."}],"related":[{"name":"José Ruperto Monagas","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jose-ruperto-monagas"},{"name":"Luis Herrera Campins","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/luis-herrera-campins"},{"name":"Marcos Pérez Jiménez","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/marcos-perez-jimenez"},{"name":"Cipriano Castro","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cipriano-castro"},{"name":"Antonio Guzmán Blanco","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antonio-guzman-blanco"},{"name":"Isaías Medina Angarita","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/isaias-medina-angarita"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/cristobal-mendoza-c535185b3e.jpg","width":500,"height":668,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Juan Lovera","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Lovera_2012_007.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Cristóbal Mendoza","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_Mendoza","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q2497553","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497553","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Juan Lovera 2012 007.jpg by Juan Lovera (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Lovera_2012_007.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Cristóbal Mendoza, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Juan Lovera 2012 007.jpg — Juan Lovera, Public domain.","cite":"\"Cristóbal Mendoza\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/cristobal-mendoza. Retrieved 12 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-12","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/cristobal-mendoza","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/cristobal-mendoza","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/cristobal-mendoza?lang=ne"}}