Conservative General Francisco Ferrera becomes independent Honduras's…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

Conservative General Francisco Ferrera becomes independent Honduras's first elected president after the fifteen-month interim presidency of Francisco Zelaya Ayes (1839-40).

Ferrera's two-year term (1841-42) is followed by a five-year period in which he alternately names himself president or allows the congress to name an interim president while he maintains control of the country by holding the post at this time known as minister of war.

Ferrera's last notable act had been the unsuccessful attempt to depose the liberal Morazán as president of El Salvador.

In 1847 Ferrera allows fellow-conservative Juan Lindo Zelaya to assume the presidency

Under Lindo's presidency, a new constitution is adopted in 1848, and some effort is made to promote education, but any effort to make substantial improvements in the country's situation will be doomed by continuing turmoil.

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