Tomás Herrán

Tomás Herrán y Mosquera (September 21, 1843^[2] – 1904^[3]), a Colombian diplomat, signed and became a namesake of the Hay–Herrán Treaty of 1903.^[4]

Tomás Herrán
Chargé d'affaires for Colombia in the United States
In office 1903
Personal details
Born	September 21, 1843
Died	1904
Spouse	Laura Echeverri Villa[1]
Parent	Pedro Alcántara Herrán (father)
Alma mater	Georgetown University

Family

Herrán was the son of Pedro Alcántara Herrán and the maternal grandson of Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, who both served as President of Colombia.^[5]

Education

Herrán graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in 1863 and an M.A. in 1868. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Georgetown in 1900.^[6]

At the time of the Hay–Herrán Treaty, Herrán served as Colombian chargé d'affaires in the United States of America. Herrán's papers were later published as The Letters of Tomás Herrán and the Panama Crisis, 1900–1903, edited by Thomas J. Dodd, Jr.^[7]