Editing List of presidents of Colombia (section)

==Notes==
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For the purposes of numbering, a presidency is defined as an uninterrupted period of time in office served by one person. For example, [[Rafael Núñez Moledo]] served two consecutive terms and is counted as the first president (not the first and second). Upon the resignation of 5th president [[Rafael Reyes Prieto]], [[Ramón González Valencia]] became the 6th president even though he simply served out the remainder of Reyes's second term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. [[Alfonso López Pumarejo]] was both the 14th president and the 16th president, his two terms having been non-consecutive.
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<ref group="n" name="interim">
A period during which a vice-president, a [[presidential Designate|designate]], or a caretaker temporarily becomes Acting President under Article 193 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1991|1991 Constitution]], or before it, under Articles 124 and 125 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1886 Constitution]], is not a presidency, because the president constitutionally remains in office during such a period.
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<ref group="n" name="april">
President Núñez had actually taken office on 1 April 1884 for a two year term as stipulated by Article 79 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1863|1863 Constitution]]. In 1886, he was appointed by the National Constituent Council to serve a new six year term starting on 7 August 1886 as stipulated by Article A of the new [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1886 Constitution]] that created the present-day Republic of Colombia. In 1892 he started his first ''elected'' term as president, the previous term having been an appointment to safeguard the passing and implementation of the new constitution and therefore was not in conflict with Article 127 of the 1886 Constitution that prohibited the immediate re-election of a president.
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<ref group="n" name="died">
Died in office of natural causes.
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<ref group="n" name="resigned">
Resigned.
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<ref group="n" name="vicepresident2">
The [[Colombian Constitution of 1858|Constitution of 1858]] abolished the Office of the Vice President, the line of succession was modified placing the Government Ministers from oldest to youngest to succeed the President in the event of the President's temporal or permanent absence. 
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<ref group="n" name="vicepresident3">
The [[Colombian Constitution of 1861|Constitution of 1858]] had abolished the Office of the Vice President, this decision was upheld by the [[Colombian Constitution of 1863|Constitution of 1863]], but the line of succession was modified differently by the introduction of the figures of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd [[Presidential Designate]]s, who were elected annually by Congress amongst its members, but held no office or duties other than providing a succession for the President in the event of the president's temporal or permanent absence.
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<ref group="n" name="vacancy">
Prior to the abolishment of the Office of Vice President in 1905, Article 131 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1886 Constitution]] did not allow for a vacancy in the vice presidency to be filled until the end of the constitutionally elected term.
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<ref group="n" name="vicepresident">
The Office of the Vice President was officially abolished by the 1905 National Constituent Assembly on 28 March 1905, and it was only reinstituted after the ratification of the new [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1991 Constitution]] with Vice President de la Calle taking office after the following presidential elections in 1994.
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<ref group="n" name="coup">
Took power by ''[[coup d'état]]''.
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<ref group="n" name="frentenacional">
Between 1958 and 1974 the presidency, under the [[National Front (Colombia)|National Front]] alternation plan, was held in an alternating manner by members of the two traditional parties: Liberals and Conservatives.
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<ref group="n" name="republican">
Although nominally head of the newly created Republican Union party, Restrepo was a long-time member of the Conservative Party.
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<ref group="n" name="fouryear">
The 1910 National Constituent Assembly [[Constitutional amendment|amended]] Article 114 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1886 Constitution]] changing the length of a presidential term from that of six years to one of four years.
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<ref group="n" name="reelection">
Álvaro Uribe Vélez is the first president to have been legally allowed to seek an immediate second term by the 2nd Legislative Act of 2004 that amended Article 197 of the [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1991 Constitution]]. Before that, the [[Colombian Constitution of 1886|1886 Constitution]] allowed presidents to seek a second term only in non-consecutive periods. 
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