Tiburcio Carías Andino
| Tiburcio Carías Andino | |
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| 38th President of Honduras | |
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In office 1 February 1933 – 1 January 1949 |
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| Preceded by | Vicente Mejía Colindres |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Gálvez |
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President of Honduras (Constitutional) |
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In office 27 April 1924 – 30 April 1924 |
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| Preceded by | Francisco Bueso |
| Succeeded by | Vicente Tosta |
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5 March 1876 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| Died | 23 December 1969 (aged 93) Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| Nationality | Honduran |
| Political party | National Party |
Tiburcio Carías Andino (5 March 1876 – 23 December 1969) was a Honduran military man with a reputation as a strongman. He founded the National Party of Honduras in 1918, and was President of Honduras twice; briefly in 1924 and from 1933 to 1949.
Carías became a general during the revolution of 1924. In the 1923 elections, Carías was a candidate for the National Party against the divided Liberals, but only won a plurality of the vote. The resulting deadlock was followed by disturbances, and elections the following year saw Miguel Paz Barahona of the National Party elected, although Carías was able to exercise a degree of influence during Barahona's presidency. In 1928, Carías was the National Party's candidate but lost to Vicente Mejía Colindres of the Liberal Party. He accepted the result, as the election had been comparatively free and fair, marking a then-rare peaceful transfer of power between the two major parties.
On 1 February 1933 he became President of Honduras again, this time for 16 years. Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 Honduran presidential elections were relatively peaceful and fair. The peaceful transition of power was surprising because the onset of the Great Depression had led to the overthrow of governments elsewhere throughout Latin America, in nations with much stronger democratic traditions than those of Honduras. Vicente Mejía, however, resisted pressure from his own party to manipulate the results to favor the Liberal party candidate, Ángel Zúñiga Huete. As a result, the National Party candidate, Carías, won the election by a margin of some 20,000 votes. On 16 November 1932, Carías assumed office, beginning what was to be the longest period of continuous rule by an individual in Honduran history.
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