Ángel Sandoval Peña

Ángel Sandoval Peña (born September 24, 1871 in Vallegrande ; † 1941 ) was a lawyer and minister in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Ángel Sandoval graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Santo Tomás de Aquino (today "René Moreno") in Santa Cruz . In the course of his career he has served as a lawyer, prefect, councilor, minister, lecturer, dean and president of the Supreme Court. Sandoval was the author of the 1904 memorandum of the Society for Geographical and Historical Studies of Santa Cruz. As the national delegate for the eastern Bolivian lowlands, he founded the city of Roboré on February 16, 1916 , designed the first jetty with tracks for the Bay of Cáceres , made Puerto Suárez a free trade port and connected the city with the metropolis of Santa Cruz by introducing the first automobile on September 25, 1919. In 1937, Sandoval was an attorney for the state-owned oil and gas company YPFB, founded in 1936, in the Standard Oil Company's administrative proceedings against the Bolivian state before the country's Supreme Court.

Today the Bolivian province of Ángel Sandoval in the eastern lowlands of the Department of Santa Cruz bears the name of Ángel Sandoval Peña in memory of his development work in this region.

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• Eldeber February 20, 2011 ( Spanish )