Leónidas Plaza
Ecuadorian politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez y Caviedes[1] (18 April 1865 – 17 November 1933) 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.
Quick Facts 16th President of Ecuador, Preceded by ...
Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez | |
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16th President of Ecuador | |
In office 1 September 1912 – 31 August 1916 | |
Preceded by | Francisco Andrade Marín |
Succeeded by | Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno |
In office 1 September 1901 – 31 August 1905 | |
Vice President | Carlos Freire Zaldumbide (1901—1903) Alfredo Baquerizo (1903—1905) |
Preceded by | Eloy Alfaro |
Succeeded by | Lizardo García |
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Born | Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez y Caviedes (1865-04-18)18 April 1865 Charapotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador |
Died | 17 November 1933(1933-11-17) (aged 68) Huigra, Guayas, Ecuador |
Political party | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party |
Spouse |
Avelina Lasso Ascázubi
(m. 1905) |
Children | Galo Plaza Lasso |
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Plaza and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.
He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez y 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.