Belisario porras biography of barack

President of Panama (1856–1942)

For the Panamanian corregimiento, see Belisario Porras, Panama.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Porras and the second or maternal family name is Barahona.

Belisario Porras Barahona (28 November 1856 – 28 August 1942) was a Panamanianjournalist and politician.

Belisario porras biography of barack

He served three terms as President of Panama between 1912 and 1924.

Porras was born in Las Tablas, on the thirty-fifth anniversary of Panama's declaration of independence from Spain. Raised by his grandmother, his early education was paid for by his father in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, which Panama was a province of at the time.

He joined his father when he went to secondary school, went on to study law at the National University in 1874, and won a scholarship from the Colombian government to study in Belgium from where he later returned to Panama.

Working as a reporter, he aligned himself with the loc