Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Costa Rican politician (1858–1933)
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado (18 November 1858 – 10 February 1933) was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician.[1]
Máximo Fernández Alvarado | |
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 Fernández Alvarado c.1900 | |
| President of the Constitutional Congress | |
| In office 1 May 1916 – 27 January 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas |
| Succeeded by | Arturo Volio Jiménez |
| In office 1 May 1913 – 30 May 1914 | |
| Preceded by | Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias |
| Succeeded by | Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas |
| Deputy of the Constitutional Congress | |
| In office 1 May 1912 – 27 January 1917 | |
| Constituency | San José Province |
| In office 1 May 1886 – 3 August 1888 | |
| Constituency | San José Province |
| Secretary of Public Works | |
| In office 3 August 1888 – 1 May 1889 | |
| President | Bernardo Soto Alfaro |
| Secretary of Interior and Police | |
| In office 3 August 1888 – 1 May 1889 | |
| President | Bernardo Soto Alfaro |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 November 1858 |
| Died | 10 February 1933 (aged 74) |
| Party | Republican Party (from 1897) |
Other political affiliations | Constitutional Democratic (1889–1890) |
| Education | University of Santo Tomás |
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Born in Desamparados in 1858, he graduated as a Bachelor in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas at fourteen years old and as a lawyer in the same institution in 1881 with merit.[1]
He occupied several important positions, among them these are Secretary of State, Deputy and President of the Constitutional Congress 1913–1914 and 1916–1917. He founded[citation needed] the Partido Republicano, an ideology that combined doctrines of liberalism and populism, and was a candidate to the presidency in Costa Rican elections of 1902, 1906 and 1913.[1] On several occasions he was exiled for political reasons.[citation needed] He also published a poetic anthology.[1]
