Felipe de Vergara Azcárate y Caycedo (May 26, 1745 - December 18, 1818) was a Colombian lawyer, professor, rector, Senator and Congressional Representative who held the presidency of Colombia from November 26, 1812, to December 14, 1812, also Lieutenant Governor of Cartagena de Indias and Prosecutor of the same, Royal Accountant of the treasury of Panamá, served as Secretary of State, War and Foreign Relations.

[1] As José María Caballero described it in the well-known Diario de la Independencia, he rubbed shoulders with characters whom "the sparks of the fire lit in France" reached them (like Antonio Nariño).

[3] He became vice-chancellor of this establishment, and as such he assumed the rectory between January 6 and February 16, 1812, while his brother, Francisco Xavier de Vergara Azcarate y Caycedo, was away.

Convinced of the need to separate from power to undertake the Southern Campaign, Antonio Nariño formed a Governing Board to replace him while he was absent from Santafé.

Family Descendant of Navarrese nobility and houses of the Basque Country, more specifically from the town of Bergara in the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Felipe's great-grandfather was the Royal Treasurer of the Santa fe Mint Antonio de Vergara Azcárate y Dávila, born in Cádiz, on January 11, 1612, Major Bailiff of the Inquisition, Knight of the Order of Santiago, Field Master, Ensign and Lieutenant Captain General of Artillery.

Also Captain, Sergeant Major and Ordinary Mayor of Santafé de Bogotá, founder of the illustrious and noble family in the new world that perpetrated his surname Vergara-Azcarate in the Andean heights of what is now Colombia.