Jesús Jiménez Zamora

Jesús Jiménez Zamora (born June 18, 1823 in Cartago , Costa Rica ; † February 12, 1897 ibid) was twice President of Costa Rica.

Life

J. Zamora (1851)

Jiménez married on January 25, 1850 in Cartago Esmeralda Oreamuno Gutiérrez, the daughter of Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla . The marriage has seven children, u. a. Manuel de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno (1854–1916), 1889 Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, and Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno . He became a doctor at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala .

When his colleague José María Montealegre Fernández was put to power in 1859, he was a delegate for Cartago to the Constituent Assembly in 1856. He was Foreign Minister and Minister for Public Education in the government cabinet of Montealegre. He resigned from this office in 1860. From 1860 to 1861 he was Deputy President and from 1862 to 1863 Member of Parliament.

Presidency 1863–1866

In the April 1863 elections, he was elected President for the 1863-1866 term. Shortly after taking office, he had parliament unconstitutionally dissolved and a new parliament elected. He granted asylum to Gerardo Barrios , which is why four Central American governments suspended diplomatic relations with his government. In 1865 a border between Costa Rica and Colombia was defined in Bogotá in the Tratado Castro-Valenzuela .

Presidency November 1, 1868 - April 27, 1870

In May 1866, Jiménez became deputy president. On November 1, 1868, he launched a coup against President José María Castro Madriz . He ended the hegemony of the commanders of the barracks of San José and called a constituent assembly, which in 1869 passed a constitution in which primary education was made compulsory with the cost being borne by the state.

In the April 1869 elections he was elected President for the 1869–1872 term. He led a repressive regime including press censorship, and some members of the opposition left Costa Rica. In this regime the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga was founded in Cartago. On April 27, 1870, Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez put forward and declared Bruno Carranza Ramírez president. Jiménez retired to Cartago; when his opponents threatened to bring him to justice, he fled to what is now Panama .

The Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez government issued an amnesty under which he returned to Costa Rica.

literature

• Felipe Molina Bosquejo de la republica de Costa Rica, seguido de apuntamientos par su historia. New York 1851

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guillermo Brenes Tencio, Los funerales de Don Jesús Jiménez, Cantón Central de Cartago, Costa Rica, 1897 (PDF; 183 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
José María Montealegre Fernández José María Castro Madriz	Presidents of Costa Rica May 8, 1863 - May 8, 1866 November 1, 1868 - April 27, 1870	José María Castro Madriz Bruno Carranza Ramírez