Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez | |
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President of Ecuador | |
In office September 1, 1901 – August 31, 1905 |
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Vice President | Alfredo Baquerizo |
Preceded by | Eloy Alfaro |
Succeeded by | Lizardo García |
In office September 1, 1912 – August 31, 1916 |
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Preceded by | Francisco Andrade Marín |
Succeeded by | Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno |
Personal details | |
Born |
Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes April 19, 1865 Charapotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador |
Died | November 17, 1932 Huigra, Guayas, Ecuador |
(aged 67)
Nationality | Ecuadorian |
Political party | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party |
Spouse(s) | Avelina Lasso Ascázubi |
Children | Galo Plaza Lasso |
Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes (April 19, 1865 – November 17, 1932) was an Ecuadorian politician who was the president of Ecuador for two separate occasions, from September 1, 1901 to August 31, 1905 and again from September 1, 1912 to August 31, 1916.
He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez de Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with arostocratic 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.