Manuel Amador Guerrero  Amador Guerrero, Manuel (mänwĕlˈ ämädōrˈ
gārāˈrō) [key], 1833–1909, first president of Panama (1904–8),
b. Colombia. A physician, he served as medical officer for the
Panama RR and was a leader in the movement for Panamanian
independence from Colombia. As the emissary (1903) for the
revolutionaries to the United States, he helped obtain U.S. aid
for the successful revolution. He was unanimously selected
president of the new republic by the constitutional convention
despite a stipulation in the constitution that the president be
born in Panama.   More on Amador Guerrero Manuel from Fact
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