Leónidas Plaza

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Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez
16th President of Ecuador
In office
1 September 1912 – 31 August 1916
Preceded byFrancisco Andrade Marín
Succeeded byAlfredo Baquerizo Moreno
In office
1 September 1901 – 31 August 1905
Vice PresidentCarlos Freire Zaldumbide (1901—1903)
Alfredo Baquerizo (1903—1905)
Preceded byEloy Alfaro
Succeeded byLizardo García
Personal details
Born
Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes

(1865-04-18)18 April 1865
Charapotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador
Died17 November 1932(1932-11-17) (aged 67)
Huigra, Guayas, Ecuador
Political partyEcuadorian Radical Liberal Party
Spouse
(m. 1905)
ChildrenGalo Plaza Lasso
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Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes[1] (18 April 1865 – 17 November 1932) was an Ecuadorian politician who was the President of Ecuador from 1 September 1901 to 31 August 1905 and again from 1 September 1912 to 31 August 1916.

He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez de Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy. He married María Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them, Galo Plaza, was also president of Ecuador.[2] He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900. He was Minister of Finance in 1911.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rulers.org
  2. ^ "Historia de los Presidentes - Galo Plaza Lasso" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 October 2008.

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Political offices
Preceded by President of Ecuador
1901–1905
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Ecuador
1912–1916
Succeeded by