Eliodoro Villazón

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Eliodoro Villazón Montaño
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27th President of Bolivia
In office
12 August 1909 – 14 August 1913
Vice PresidentMacario Pinilla Vargas (1st)
Juan Misael Saracho (2nd)
Preceded byIsmael Montes
Succeeded byIsmael Montes
15th Vice President of Bolivia
First Vice President
In office
14 August 1904 – 12 August 1909
PresidentIsmael Montes
Preceded byLucio Pérez Velasco
Succeeded byMacario Pinilla Vargas
Other offices
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship
In office
29 April 1902 – 27 October 1903
PresidentJosé Manuel Pando
Preceded byFederico Díez de Medina
Succeeded by
In office
2 February 1900 – 4 December 1900
PresidentJosé Manuel Pando
Preceded by
Succeeded by (acting)
Minister of Government and Justice
In office
19 March 1902 – 29 April 1902
PresidentJosé Manuel Pando
Preceded byAníbal Capriles Cabrera
Succeeded byJosé Carrasco Torrico
Minister of Finance and Industry
In office
18 December 1880 – 4 August 1881
PresidentNarciso Campero
Preceded byAntonio Quijarro
Succeeded byAntonio Quijarro
Minister of Finance
In office
15 April 1880 – 20 June 1880
PresidentNarciso Campero
Preceded by
Succeeded byAntonio Quijarro
Personal details
Born
Eliodoro Villazón Montaño

(1848-01-22)22 January 1848
Sacaba, Cochabamba,Bolivia
Died12 September 1939(1939-09-12) (aged 91)
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Enriqueta Torrico Gonzales
ParentsJosé Manuel Villazón
Manuela Montaño
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Eliodoro Villazón Montaño (22 January 1848 in Sacaba – 12 September 1939) was a Bolivian member of the Liberal party who served as the 27th President of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913 and as the 15th Vice President of Bolivia from 1904 to 1909.

Biography[]

A native of Sacaba, Cochabamba Department, he was a lawyer by trade but early in his life entered politics and held a number of offices through various administrations. As a Liberal, he was Minister of Foreign Relations under José Manuel Pando (1899–1904) and Vice-President to Ismael Montes (1904–1909).[citation needed]

Elected President in 1909, he benefited from the lingering popularity of, and good will to, the successful first Montes administration. Villazón was a measured, competent man and his term was relatively calm and prosperous, at least from the optic of the propertied elites that participated in national life in accordance to the prevailing, largely oligarchic, order. In 1912, his administration accrued a budgetary surplus. High-capacity mining exports and a rubber boom in the remote northern lowlands fed the economic apogee, which would later prove to be short-lived.[citation needed]

In 1913, Ismael Montes decided to again run for president and, having won the elections, received the presidential sash from the same man to whom he had turned it over in 1909, Eliodoro Villazón. The now former-president was named Bolivian ambassador to various countries after leaving office, and died in Cochabamba on September 12, 1939, at age 91.[citation needed]

References[]

  • Mesa José de; Gisbert, Teresa; and Carlos D. Mesa, "Historia De Bolivia", 3rd edition. pp. 505–509.
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