Background
OLAYA HERRERA, Enrique was born on November 12, 1881 in Guateque, Province of Boyacá. Son of Doctor Justiniano Olaya and Emperatriz Herrera de Olaya.
journalist lawyer and public man
OLAYA HERRERA, Enrique was born on November 12, 1881 in Guateque, Province of Boyacá. Son of Doctor Justiniano Olaya and Emperatriz Herrera de Olaya.
Founded El Patriota of Guateque. Editor of the bi-weekly El Comercio of Bogotá. Chief of the Boundary Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Secretary of the Colombian legation in Caracas, 1907— 1909.
Founded the Gaceta Republicana. Member of the National Constitutional and Legislative Assembly from the Department of Quesada, 1910.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910. Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile, 1912.
To Argentina, 1913-1915.
Founded the Diario Nacional of Bogotá, 1915. Member and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, 1917 and 1918. Senator from the Department of Tolima, 1920 and 1921.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1921.
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, 1922-1930. Vice-chairman of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, 1927.
Colombian delegate to the Inter-American Commission on Commercial Aviation, Washington, 1927. Rapporteur of the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration, Washing- ¥nn 19281 chairman of the Colombian deleto the Sixth Pan-American ConIa Tee of Havana, 1928.
President of rolombia, 1930-1934.
Married Maria Teresa Londoño y Sáenz.