Alberto Enríquez Gallo

Alberto Enríquez Gallo (born July 24, 1895 at the Hacienda Santa Rosa Grande , Tanicuchí , Latacunga ; † July 13, 1962 in Quito ) was an Ecuadorian military man and dictator of his country from October 23, 1937 to August 10, 1938.

He was involved in the suppression of the alfarist uprisings in 1910 and 1911 and in the revolution of 1925. After the fall of Velasco Ibarra in 1935, he was promoted to general by the interim President Federico Páez , who was also his godfather, and sworn in as defense minister. However, when Páez tried to manipulate the 1937 Constituent Assembly, Enríquez Gallo overthrew him and declared himself dictator. In 1938 he called a new constituent assembly and gave it power.

He then largely withdrew from politics, but was an unsuccessful presidential candidate for the Ecuadorian Socialist Party in 1948 and Senator for Cotopaxi from 1956 to 1960 .

Web links

Rudolfo Pérez Pimentel, Alberto Enríquez Gallo , in Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador , Guayaquil 1987ff., Volume 2 (Spanish)
Humberto Oña Villarreal, Dictadura Del General Gilberto Enrique Gallo , short description at EcuadorOnline (Spanish)
Efrén Avilés Pino, Enríquez Gallo, Grail. Alberto in the Enciclopedia del Ecuador (Spanish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Federico Páez	President of Ecuador 1937 - 1938	Mariano Suarez

personal data
SURNAME	Enríquez Gallo, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ecuadorian President, military
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hacienda Santa Rosa Grande, Tanicuchí , Latacunga
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1962
Place of death	Quito