Francisco Aguilar Barquero

Francisco Aguilar Barquero (born May 21, 1857 in Cartago , † October 11, 1924 in San José ) was President of Costa Rica from September 2, 1919 to May 8, 1920 .

Life

His parents were María Sacramento Barquero and Francisco Aguilar Cubero. He married Natalia Morúa Ortiz in Cartago on September 20, 1880, the daughter of María Josefa Clara Ortiz y Campos and Rafael Morúa y Quirós. Eight children were born in this marriage: Jorge Arturo, Manuel, Sara, Arturo, José Luis, Rubén, Marco Tulio and Jorge Aguilar Morúa.

He was a teacher, later he studied law and in August 1881 was admitted to the bar at the Universidad de Santo Tomás . He was a criminal judge, professor at the Escuela de Derecho, replacement judge at the Supreme Court of Costa Rica and chairman of the bar association.

He was governor of Cartago and Puerto Limón , from 1888 to 1889 Member of Parliament for Puerto Limón, and in 1889 he was Minister of War and the Navy. From 1890 to 1892 he was a member of parliament for Cartago, from 1912 to 1916 he was a member of parliament for San José and from 1914 to 1917 third deputy to President Alfredo González Flores .

Presidency

On August 9, 1919 Juan Bautista Quirós Segura was deputy to President Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados . On August 12, 1919 Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados transferred the official business to Juan Bautista Quirós Segura.

Julio Acosta García was in exile in Nicaragua. When Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados left Costa Rica on August 12, 1919 from the US observation of Puerto Limón, Acosta was proclaimed President of Costa Rica in New York and commissioned Francisco Aguilar Barquero to arrange free elections.

On August 20, 1919, the parliament approved the resignation of Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados.

On August 27, 1919, General José Joaquín Tinoco Granados was killed.

The presidency of Juan Bautista Quirós Segura, like that of Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados, was not recognized by US President Woodrow Wilson and the US government. Before the possibility of armed intervention, he gave the presidency on September 2, 1919 to Francisco Aguilar Barquero.

The US government had recalled the ambassador Stewart Johnson on December 5, 1918, but conveyed that Francisco Aguilar Barquero should lead the official business in his function as third deputy of the president Alfredo González Flores . Francisco Aguilar Barquero had made up his mind that he should not run the business as a third deputy, but as interim president. He reinstated the 1870 constitution and called presidential elections for December 1920. He revoked the declaration of war against the German Empire, making Costa Rica no victorious nation of the First World War. Since the government of Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados with a quarter of a million USD , child and bowling, had withdrawn as a foreign representation of Costa Rica, a law on the consular system was decreed.

Individual evidence

^ The New York Times , Aug. 15, 1919, NEW COSTA RICA PRESIDENT; Tinoco Escaped from Limon. ( query.nytimes.com ), Julio Acosta has been named Provisional President of the republic. He has designated Francisco Aguilar Barquero to arrange for the holding of free. ( query.nytimes.com PDF).
^ The New York Times , August 18, 1919, Exiled President of Costa Rica Blames Nicaragua for Murder of His Brother. DETAILS OF ASSASSINATION Was Acting for the President and Was Shot in the Back While onWay for Official Conference. ( query.nytimes.com ), Federico Tinoco, for the last two and a half years President of Costa Rica, in a statement to the correspondent on his arrival here today, said he believed the assassin of his brother, Jose Joaquin Tinoco, had come from Nicaragua, and that the assassination had been planned in Nicaragua and Washington. ( query.nytimes.com PDF).

predecessor	Office	successor
Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados	Presidents of Costa Rica September 2, 1919 - May 8, 1920	Julio Acosta García

personal data
SURNAME	Aguilar Barquero, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	President of Costa Rica
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cartago , Costa Rica
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1924
Place of death	San Jose , Costa Rica

[nyt19190815-1] The New York Times , Aug. 15, 1919, NEW COSTA RICA PRESIDENT; Tinoco Escaped from Limon. ( query.nytimes.com ), Julio Acosta has been named Provisional President of the republic. He has designated Francisco Aguilar Barquero to arrange for the holding of free. ( query.nytimes.com PDF).

[nyt19190818-2] The New York Times , August 18, 1919, Exiled President of Costa Rica Blames Nicaragua for Murder of His Brother. DETAILS OF ASSASSINATION Was Acting for the President and Was Shot in the Back While onWay for Official Conference. ( query.nytimes.com ), Federico Tinoco, for the last two and a half years President of Costa Rica, in a statement to the correspondent on his arrival here today, said he believed the assassin of his brother, Jose Joaquin Tinoco, had come from Nicaragua, and that the assassination had been planned in Nicaragua and Washington. ( query.nytimes.com PDF).