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Bolivar Simon 1783 - 1830 Simon Bolivar government document signed by "El Libertador"

Partly printed and handwritten in Spanish on cream folio paper measuring 9.25" x 13.75". Featuring enormous and dramatic signature "Simon Bolivar" in lower third, with signature measuring approximately 6.5" x 2.5" alone. Text appears below "Republica de Colombia / Simon Bolivar, Libertador Presidente, &c &c &c" letterhead. A slightly cracked but intact Republic of Columbia wax seal is located along the left margin. Also signed at bottom by Secretary of State J.R. Revenga. Inscribed and signed verso by at least four different hands; at top appears possible docket dated July 4, 1827. Expected edge wear including small tear along left and restored 5 ë_" long margin at right. Isolated foxing does not detract from grandiose signature.

This document appoints "SeÕ±or Vicente Mari" to a support position in the accounting department of the city of Caracas, citing a former decree issued approximately two months prior. Mari's office appointment is authorized by "the Liberator President" by both his signature and the presence of the national seal on the document. It was signed on May 30, 1827 in Caracas, "in the seventeenth year since independence."

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) left a stamp on South American geopolitics as indelible as his signature on this document. Born to a Creole family who had lived in Venezuela since the sixteenth century, Bolivar completed his education in Madrid. In 1810, Spanish colonial government was overthrown, and Bolivar served as a delegate of the new first Venezuelan Republic to Great Britain. Bolivar soon ascended to power as "el libertador", and had radicalized by 1813 to such an extent that his "Decree of War to the Death" mandated that any Spanish who did not support Venezuelan independence would be killed.

Bolivar used his political and military experiments in Venezuela as a model throughout South America. Eventually, he served as president of an enormous nation known as Gran Columbia, whose territories included modern day Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, and Columbia, from 1819-1830. At the time that this document was issued, Bolivar struggled to maintain his control over such a large territory, and appointments like SeÕ±or Mari's would have been an important way to consolidate loyalties and ensure the efficient administration of the government. Three years later, Bolivar resigned the presidency of Gran Columbia. Before a year had lapsed from his resignation, he died of tuberculosis at the age of forty-seven.

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