José María González Valencia (born in Pamplona on June 25, 1840) was a Colombian Conservative politician, lawyer,[1] academic, diplomat, writer and educator.
[6] José María González was born in Pamplona, then the Republic of New Granada, on June 25, 1840, into a middle-class family from the Norte de Santander region.
González began his political career at the end of the 19th century, on behalf of the Colombian Conservative Party, to which one of his brothers also belonged.
[6] Years later he served as Minister of Public Instruction during the brief government of Jorge Holguín, between June 10 and August 3, 1909, until his brother Ramón assumed the presidency.
He was the brother of Ramón, Cecilia, María Antonia, Matilde, Víctor, Luis Eusebio, Gertrudis and Mariana González Valencia.