Máximo Fernández Alvarado

Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Photo of Máximo Fernández Alvarado taken circa 1900
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
Personal details
Born(1858-11-18)18 November 1858
Desamparados, Costa Rica
Died10 February 1933(1933-02-10) (aged 74)
San José, Costa Rica
Political partyRepublican Party
Parent(s)José Francisco Fernández Quezada
Juana Alvarado Madrigal
EducationUniversity of Santo Tomás
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Máximo Fernández Alvarado (1858–1933) was a Costa Rican 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[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]

He died in San José in 1933.[1]

References

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