The Most Excellent
Cecilia Caballero Blanco
1993 photograph by Hernán Díaz.
First Lady of Colombia
In role
August 7, 1974 (1974-08-07) – August 7, 1978 (1978-08-07)
PresidentAlfonso López Michelsen
Preceded byMaría Cristina Arango Vega
Succeeded byNydia Quintero Turbay
First Lady of Cesar
In office
21 December 1967 – 14 August 1968
GovernorAlfonso López Michelsen
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMargarita Puche Lacoutire
Personal details
Born
Cecilia Caballero Blanco

(1913-09-30)September 30, 1913
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
DiedAugust 13, 2019(2019-08-13) (aged 105)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia[1]
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
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(m. 1938; died 2007)​
Children

Cecilia Caballero de López (30 September 1913 – 13 August 2019) was the wife of the 24th President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.[2]

Personal life

Cecilia was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogotá to Julio Caballero Barrera and Mary Blanco Barroso.[2] She married Alfonso López Michelsen, lawyer and politician on 23 October 1938. They had three sons: Alfonso, an economist and diplomat, Juan Manuel, and Felipe. She turned 100 in September 2013,[3] and died on 13 August 2019 at the age of 105, just 7 weeks before her 106th birthday.[4][5] She was also the Longest lived First lady of Colombia.

References

  1. ^ "Murió Cecilia Caballero, esposa del expresidente Alfonso López Michelsen". eluniversal.com. August 13, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Ríos Peñaloza, Gilma (1 August 1996). "Primeras Damas del Siglo XX" [First Ladies of the 20th Century]. Credencial Historia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Bank of the Republic (80). ISSN 0121-3296. OCLC 39236834. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  3. ^ "100 years of the Girl vital Ceci" (in Spanish). elherado.co. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Fallece Cecilia Caballero, esposa del expresidente Alfonso López Michelsen" [Cecilia Caballero, wife of former president Alfonso López Michelsen dies]. Canal 1 (in Spanish). 13 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  5. ^ Restrepo, Carolina (14 August 2019). "Falleció Cecilia Caballero, viuda de Alfonso López Michelsen" [Cecilia Caballero, widow of Alfonso López Michelsen, has died]. La FM (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 August 2019.
Honorary titles Preceded byMaría Cristina Arango First Lady of Colombia 1974–1978 Succeeded byNydia Quintero Turbay Preceded byPosition established First Lady of Cesar 1967-1968 Next:Margarita Puche Lacoutire
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