Editing Jonas Furrer (section)

{{Short description|1st president of the Swiss Confederation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Jonas Furrer
| image=Porträt Jonas Furrer.jpg
| party= [[Free Democratic Party of Switzerland|Free Democratic Party]]
| office1=[[Member of the Swiss Federal Council]]
| term_start1=16 November 1848
| term_end1=25 July 1861
| office2= [[President of the Confederation (Switzerland)|President of the Confederation]] 
| term_start2=21 November 1848
| term_end2=31 December 1849
| predecessor2= ''Office established''
| successor2= [[Henri Druey]]
| office3= [[President of the Confederation (Switzerland)|President of the Confederation]] 
| term_start3=1 January 1852
| term_end3=31 December 1852
| predecessor3= [[Josef Munzinger]]
| successor3= [[Wilhelm Matthias Naeff]]
| office4= [[President of the Confederation (Switzerland)|President of the Confederation]] 
| term_start4=1 January 1855
| term_end4=31 December 1855
| predecessor4= [[Friedrich Frey-Herosé]]
| successor4= [[Jakob Stämpfli]]
| birth_date={{birth date|1805|3|3|df=y}}
| birth_place=[[Winterthur]], [[canton of Zürich]], [[Switzerland in the Napoleonic era|Switzerland]]
| death_date={{death date and age|1861|7|25|1805|3|3|df=y}}
| death_place=[[Bad Ragaz]], [[Switzerland]]
|}}
'''Jonas Furrer''' (3 March 1805 – 25 July 1861) was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as a member of the [[Swiss Federal Council|Federal Council]], from 1848 to 1861, and as the first [[president of the Swiss Confederation]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://freimaurerei.ch/en/famous-personalities/ | title = Famous personalities | language = en, fr, de, it | website = [[Grand Lodge Alpina of Switzerland]] | archive-url = https://archive.today/20171106134634/https://freimaurerei.ch/en/famous-personalities/ | archive-date = November 6, 2017 | url-status = live | access-date = March 17, 2019 }}</ref> from 1848 to 1849, and again in 1852, 1855 and 1858. He was one of the leading figures in the foundation of [[Switzerland as a federal state]].<ref name=HDS/> He was a member of the [[Free Democratic Party of Switzerland|Radical Party]].