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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes 18 April 1865 Charapotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador |
| Died | 17 November 1932 (aged 67) Huigra, Guayas, Ecuador |
| Political party | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party |
| Spouse |
Avelina Lasso Ascázubi
(m. 1905) |
| Children | Galo 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
- ↑ Rulers.org
- ↑ "Historia de los Presidentes - Galo Plaza Lasso" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 October 2008.
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