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Cundinamarca on March 18, 1816. Due to the imminent threat of the royalist troops taking Santafé, Governor Nicolás Ribas resigned on April 24, and Vergara was promoted to that position. During his term, he organized civic guards and cavalry squadrons throughout Bogotá to boost morale before the Spanish took over the city. He also participated in the delivery of provisions and war materials to the cavalry troops. Although he tried to resign again, the Senate did not accept it and expressed their confidence in him by recognizing his "zeal, effectiveness, activity, and patriotism" in a letter.
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November 9. During this time, he also held the positions of
Secretary General and Secretary (Minister) of the Interior and Foreign Relations, making Vergara the first minister of this branch in Colombia. As such, he received the country's first foreign diplomatic agents in history. At the end of that year, he was summoned again by General Santander and was elected as a deputy for the province of Bogotá to take part in the Cúcuta congress. However, he was excused from attending the meetings so that he could stay by Santander's side and handle government affairs.
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country in 1819 and to organize the public administration and judicial power. As
Santander's secretary, he merits being one of the collaborators in founding and organizing the Republic of Colombia and Gran Colombia. On July 12, the second fundamental law of the Republic of Colombia was discussed in the Cúcuta congress, and on August 6, it was published in Bogotá by Vice President Santander and Secretary General Vergara.
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Liberator. He also became a member of the National Academy, which was established by Vice President Francisco de Paula Santander on March 18, 1826. He was one of the co-founders of the Central University of Colombia, which was opened on December 25, 1826. At this prestigious institution, he served as the deputy director and a professor in the faculty of jurisprudence.
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September 11, 1828, while serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he received news in Santander that he had been appointed as the plenipotentiary minister of Gran Colombia before the United States government. He served in various positions for three presidents - Simón Bolívar, Francisco de Paula Santander, and Rafael Urdaneta.
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the same year, he was appointed as a substitute senator and
Legislator to integrate the legislative body. Entering the year 1816, he learned of the taking of Cartagena by Pablo Morillo and the disastrous battle of Charirí that gave a large part of the territory to the Spanish who were in the midst of reconquering New Granada.
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In August 1819, the people of Santafé were overjoyed upon receiving news about the Battle of Boyacá. Three days later, on August 10, a group of republicans held an extraordinary town hall meeting and established a provisional government. They appointed
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Bolívar appointed General Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president and divided the administration of New Granada into two departments. At Santander's request, Estanislao was appointed Secretary of the Interior and Justice between 1819 and 1821. He was one of the first to civilly organize the
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had to pay a large amount of money for their freedom, leaving several family members in ruin and in debt to the royal coffers. After his release, he arrived in Santafé where he was compelled to revalidate his education as a lawyer. This was because Morillo didn't acknowledge degrees granted by the
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Vergara's diplomatic activities, although initially secret, became public knowledge, leading to widespread opposition to the monarchical initiative. The opposition extended to Bolívar, who was aware of the council's efforts, but refrained from intervening. In an attempt to prevent intellectual
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On May 6, the armies of the Spanish King arrived in Santafé, which made Vergara go into hiding for a while. However, he later appeared before the purification council, and on July 10, he was sentenced to serve six years in the army by Pablo Morillo's decree. His sister Antonia Vergara Sanz de
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and Leandro Palacios, expressing the council's preference for a French monarch. However, negotiations with Great Britain failed when the kingdom refused to approve a monarch of French origin for Colombia, despite Vergara's support.
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Republics. Finally, in 1817, he received his lawyer's degree from the Royal Court. He was then given the task of taking inventory of the books of the house botany and also served as a poor lawyer.
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meet with El Libertador Simón Bolívar and inform him of the events occurring in the capital. On the same day, Bolívar made his entry into Santafé amidst a shower of flowers and martial music.
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from leaving Colombia. Vergara proposed to Bolívar that he appoint Bello as Colombian ambassador to the United States. Bello rejected the offer as he had already been hired by the
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foreigners, and import regulations. On July 17, he introduced bills aimed at establishing the territorial division of the Republic and organizing the political regime of Colombia.
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incorporation of the department of Quito, and the issuance of aid to Peru. Additionally, he served as the Mayor of Cundinamarca once again.
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