Federico Boyd

{{Short description|President of Panama (1851–1924)}} {{family name hatnote|Boyd|López|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Moresources|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox president |name = Federico Boyd |image = FBoyd4.jpg |caption = |order = Acting [[President of Panama]] |term_start = 1 October 1910 |term_end = 5 October 1910 |predecessor = [[Carlos Antonio Mendoza]] |successor = [[Pablo Arosemena]] |birth_name = Federico Augusto Boyd López |birth_date = 24 September 1851 |birth_place = [[Panama City]], [[Republic of New Granada]] |death_date = 12 May 1924 (aged 72) |death_place = [[New York City]], U.S. }}

'''Federico Augusto Boyd López''' (24 September 1851 – 25 May 1924) was the acting [[President of Panama]] from 1 October 1910 to 5 October 1910. He belonged to the [[National Liberal Party (Panama)|Liberal Party]].

Boyd was born in [[Panama City]] on 24 September 1851 to Archibaldo B. Boyd and Maria Lopez de Boyd. He was a [[businessperson|businessman]] who became an active member of the Patriotic Revolutionary Junta that struggled to get [[Separation of Panama from Colombia|Panama's independence]] from [[Colombia]]. He fought in favor of his country without thinking of the danger of the actions he undertook. He served in several positions: member of the Panama City Town Hall (1888); member of the Provisional Government Junta (1903); National Assembly senator (1910); head of state of Panama (1910); foreign relations minister (1911–1912); ambassador and minister in [[Germany]], [[Netherlands]], and [[Belgium]]; and General Consul and business representative in [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]].

Boyd was elected as [[Vice President of Panama|the second presidential designate]] by the [[National Assembly of Panama|National Assembly]] for the term 1906–1908.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHYqAAAAYAAJ |title = La sucesión presidencial en el derecho panameño|last1 = Guizado|first1 = Fernando Berguido|year = 1987}}</ref> He was elected as [[Vice President of Panama|the second presidential designate]] for the term 1910–1912, and as [[Vice President of Panama|the first presidential designate]] for the term 1920–1922.<ref name="auto"/>

Boyd's talent as a public speaker brought him to represent [[Panama]]'s interests before the [[Government of Colombia|Colombian Government]]. He presented a petition to obtain a delay in the negotiations with the [[Government of France|French Government]] to build [[Panama Canal]]. Later on, his intervention made negotiations possible with the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. Government]] for the construction of an interoceanic [[canal]] through the [[Isthmus of Panama]].

Boyd died in [[New York City]] on 25 May 1924, aged 72.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

==References== {{reflist}}

== Sources == • Mellander, Gustavo A., Mellander, Nelly, Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial Plaza Mayor; ISBN 1-56328-155-4 / OCLC 42970390 (1999)

• Mellander, Gustavo A., The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years." Danville, Ill.: Interstate Publishers; OCLC 138568 (1971)

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