Vicente de las Mercedes Herrera Zeledón (20 January 1821 – 10 November 1888) was President of Costa Rica from 30 July 1876 to 11 September 1877.

[1] He came to power in the coup d'état that deposed President Aniceto Esquivel and resigned in favor of Gen. Tomás Guardia the following year.

He graduated in philosophy in 1839 at the Teaching House of St. Thomas in San José, Costa Rica, and in May 1846 he moved to Guatemala, where he obtained in 1849 the title of doctor of law at the University of San Carlos Borromeo.

His ideology was characterized by its conservative and doctrinal positions related to the thinking of the Catholic Church, especially in education.

He was President of the Board of Charity of San José, Notary Major of the Ecclesiastical Curia and Secretary of the Cabildo of the Diocese of Costa Rica.