Gonzalo Córdova
Gonzalo Córdova | |
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| 21st President of Ecuador | |
| In office September 1, 1924 – July 9, 1925 | |
| Preceded by | José Luis Tamayo |
| Succeeded by | Luis Telmo Paz |
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| Born | July 15, 1863 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Died | April 13, 1928 (aged 85) Valparaíso, Chile |
| Political party | Radical Liberal |
Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (July 15, 1863 – April 13, 1928) was President of Ecuador from 1924–1925. Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered[by whom?] to be a pawn of "La Argolla" ("the ring"), a plutocracy of coastal agricultural and banking interests whose linchpin was the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Guayaquil led by Francisco Urbina Jado.
Popular unrest, together with an ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the foundations for a bloodless coup d'état against Córdova in July 1925. Unlike previous coups in Ecuador, the 1925 coup was in the name of a collective grouping, the League of Young Officers, rather than a particular caudillo.
He was President of the Senate in 1918.
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