Francisco Espejo

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Francisco Espejo

|image=Francisco Espejo.jpg

|caption=

|order= 2nd President of the First Republic of Venezuela

|term_start=March 21, 1812

|term_end=April 3, 1812

|predecessor=Cristobal Mendoza

|successor=Francisco de Miranda

|birth_date= {{birth date|1758|4|16|df=y}}

|death_date= {{Death date and age|df=yes|1814|7|15|1758|4|16}}

|birth_place= Siquire, Venezuela Province, Viceroyalty of New Granada, Spanish Empire (now in Miranda, Venezuela)

|death_place= Valencia, Captaincy General of Venezuela, Spanish Empire (now in Carabobo State, Venezuela)

|profession= Lawyer

|signature=Francisco Espejo signature.jpg

|laterwork=

}}

Francisco Silvestre Espejo Camaño (Siquire, Miranda State, April 16, 1758 – Valencia, Carabobo State, July 15, 1814), was a Venezuelan lawyer who briefly served as the President of Venezuela in 1812{{cite web|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/biografias/silvertre.htm|title=Silvestre Espejo, Francisco|website=banrepcultural.org|publisher=Banco de la República|accessdate=18 January 2015}} and fought for the republican cause during the Venezuelan War of Independence. His parents were Francisco Espejo and Bárbara Caamaño y Bermúdez.

He was executed by firing squad in 1814.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkgGVTOr2EsC&q=francisco+espejo+executed+by+fire+squad&pg=PA604 | title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present| isbn=9781598841008| last1=Marley| first1=David F.| year=2008| publisher=Abc-Clio}}