Máximo Fernández Alvarado

Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Fernández Alvarado c.1900
President of the Constitutional Congress
In office
1 May 1916 – 27 January 1917
Preceded byLeonidas Pacheco Cabezas
Succeeded byArturo Volio Jiménez
In office
1 May 1913 – 30 May 1914
Preceded byEzequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias
Succeeded byLeonidas Pacheco Cabezas
Deputy of the Constitutional Congress
In office
1 May 1912 – 27 January 1917
ConstituencySan José Province
In office
1 May 1886 – 3 August 1888
ConstituencySan José Province
Secretary of Public Works
In office
3 August 1888 – 1 May 1889
PresidentBernardo Soto Alfaro
Secretary of Interior and Police
In office
3 August 1888 – 1 May 1889
PresidentBernardo Soto Alfaro
Personal details
Born(1858-11-18)18 November 1858
Died10 February 1933(1933-02-10) (aged 74)
PartyRepublican Party (from 1897)
Other political
affiliations
Constitutional Democratic (1889–1890)
EducationUniversity of Santo Tomás
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer
  • businessman
  • journalist
  • writter

Máximo Fernández Alvarado (18 November 1858 – 10 February 1933) was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician.[1]

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 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.He also published a poetic anthology.[1]

He died in San José in 1933.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Máximo Fernández Alvarado | Municipalidad de Desamparados". Municipalidad de Desamparados. Retrieved 24 July 2024.