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Liborio Meja Gutirrez was a Colombian colonel and politician during the struggle for Independence from Spain, and in 1816 Liborio Meja became president of the United Provinces of the New Granada making him the youngest person to ever hold the presidency of Colombia at the age of 24. He was executed three months later during the Reconquista led by the Spaniard Pablo Morillo.

Meja, son of Jos Antonio Meja y Mara Gutirrez, was born on July 28, 1792, in Rio Negro, in the province of Antioquia, in the Viceroyalty of New Granada in what is now Colombia. He studied in the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolom between 1808 and 1812 in Santaf de Bogot. Upon his return to Medelln, he taught philosophy in the Colegio Provincial, in what is now the University of Antioquia. He studied and worked with Francisco Jos de Caldas on the defense plans for Antioquia from the royalists Reconquista.

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