Adán Cárdenas

{{Short description|Nicaraguan politician and medical doctor}}

{{family name hatnote|Cárdenas|del Castillo|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Adán Cárdenas

|image = Adan cardenas.gif

|office = President of Nicaragua

|term_start = 1 March 1883

|term_end = 1 March 1887

|predecessor = Joaquín Zavala

|successor = Evaristo Carazo

|birth_name = Adán Cárdenas del Castillo

|birth_date = {{birth date|1836|6|7|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Granada,
Federal Republic of Central America

|death_date = {{death date and age|1916|1|1|1836|6|7|df=yes}}

|death_place = Rivas, Nicaragua

|party = Conservative

|spouse = Gertrudis Martínez Solórzano

|alma_mater = University of Pisa

|occupation = Physician, Politician

|nationality = Nicaraguan

|relatives = René Cárdenas (Grandson)

}}

Adán Cárdenas del Castillo (7 June 1836 – 1 January 1916) was a Nicaraguan politician and medical doctor. He also served as the President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.{{cite web|url=http://www.mined.gob.ni/gobern21.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009181920/http://www.mined.gob.ni/gobern21.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2012|title=Gobernantes de Nicaragua|date=9 December 2012|publisher=Ministerio de Educación}}{{cite news|title=Adán Cárdenas |url=http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585779/Ad%C3%A1n_C%C3%A1rdenas.html |work=MSN Encarta |accessdate=2008-01-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708213921/http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585779/Ad%C3%A1n_C%C3%A1rdenas.html |archivedate=2008-07-08 |url-status=dead }} He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua.

Cárdenas was born in the colonial city of Granada on the shores of Lake Cocibolca in Nicaragua. He and his parent moved to Italy for some time in 1852, where he attended the National School of Genoa and received a doctorate in medicine at the University of Pisa in Tuscany. He returned to Nicaragua in 1862.{{cite news |title=El DR. Cardenas y el Coronel Carazo |url=http://descargas.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12371979791239397421624/205932_009.pdf |work=La Ilustración Española y Americana |accessdate=2008-01-17 |language=Spanish |archive-date=2011-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708134616/http://descargas.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12371979791239397421624/205932_009.pdf |url-status=dead }} He was president of the Nicaraguan Congress 1879-1881, 1885-1886 and 1911-1912.{{cite book |last1=Cardenal Tellería |first1=Marco A. |title=Nicaragua y su Historia - Cronología del acontecer histórico y construcción de la nación Nicaragüense|date=2000 |publisher=Banco Mercantil |location=Managua |isbn=99924-0-064-1}}