Jacquin Strouss Lucena

{{Short description|First Lady of Colombia from 1994 to 1998}}

{{Spanish married name|Strouss|Lucena|Samper}}

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|name = Jacquin Strouss de Samper

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|office = First Lady of Colombia

|term_label = In role

|president = Ernesto Samper

|term_start = {{Start date|1994|08|07}}

|term_end = {{End date|1998|08|07}}

|predecessor = Ana Milena Muñoz de Gaviria

|successor = Nohra Puyana de Pastrana

|birthname = {{nowrap|Jacquin Desiree Strouss Lucena}}

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|02|22}}

|birth_place = Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

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|nationality = Colombian

|party = Liberal

|spouse = {{marriage|Ernesto Samper|1979}}

|children = {{Hlist|Felipe|Miguel}}

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|profession = Economist

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Jacquin Desiree Strouss de Samper (née Strouss Lucena, February 22, 1953) is a Colombian historian and economist who served as First Lady of Colombia from 1994 to 1998 as the wife of President Ernesto Samper.{{cite journal|last=Ríos Peñaloza|first=Gilma|title=Primeras Damas del Siglo XX|journal=Credencial Historia|date=1 August 1996|issue=80|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/revistas/credencial/agosto1996/agosto2.htm|accessdate=6 November 2012|trans-title=First Ladies of the 20th Century|publisher=Colombia, Bank of the Republic|location=Bogotá|language=Spanish|issn=0121-3296|oclc=39236834|archive-date=22 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122204620/http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/revistas/credencial/agosto1996/agosto2.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=García Vásquez|first=Julio Cesar|title=Interconexion Colombia|url=http://www.interconexioncolombia.com/documentos/veeduria/La%20sombra%20del%20Proceso%208000%20y%20de%20otros%20procesos%20presuntamente%20se%20robaron%20el%20Alumbrado%20Publico%20de%20Bogota.pdf|accessdate=5 November 2012|location=Bogotá|page=33|language=Spanish|date=2004-02-02}}

Personal life

Jacquin Desiree Strouss Lucena was born on 22 February 1953 to Herbert S. Strouss and María Inés Lucena. Her father was an American Special Forces pilot who perished in Laos during the Laotian Civil War when his aircraft was shot down while delivering supplies to American troops; she was 9 years old at the time.{{cite web|title=Operational Deaths in Laos (Americans)|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000142934/DOC_0000142934.pdf|publisher=United States, Central Intelligence Agency|accessdate=4 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105095505/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000142934/DOC_0000142934.pdf|archive-date=5 November 2010|url-status=dead}} She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá where she finished her primary studies, and later graduated from Colegio La Asunción.{{cite journal|last=Gallo Rojas|first=Catalina|title=Por Amor a Ernesto|journal=El Tiempo|date=1994-08-07|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-190034|accessdate=5 November 2012|trans-title=For Ernesto's Love|location=Bogotá|language=Spanish|issn=0121-9987|oclc=28894254}} She is an alumnus of the Universidad de los Andes where she obtained a degree in Economics in 1976; she later obtain a master's degree in History at Univerdidad de los Andes.

She was single and married Ernesto Samper on 16 June 1979. Ernesto and Jacquin have two children: Felipe and Miguel.

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