Antonio José de Sucre

President of Bolivia

3, 1795 Cumaná, Captaincy General of Venezuela

June 4, 1830(1830-06-04) (35) Outside Pasto, New Granada (now Arboleda, Colombia)

29 December 1825 – 18 April 1828

President of Peru and Bolivia (1795–1830) For other uses, see Antonio José. This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (February 2011) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at ]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|es|Antonio José de Sucre}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sucre and the second or maternal family name is Alcalá. Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (Spanish pronunciation:  ( listen ) ; 1795–1830), known as "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho" ), was a Venezuelan independence leader who served as the 4th President of Peru and as the 2nd President of Bolivia. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen. Due to his influence on geopolitical affairs of Latin America, a number of notable localities on the continent now bear Sucre's name. These include the eponymous capital of Bolivia, the Venezuelan state, the department of Colombia and both the old and new airports of Ecuador's capital Quito. Additionally, many schools, streets and districts across the region bear his name as well.