Ángel Guirola

Ángel Guirola de la Cotera (5 August 1826 – 27 April 1910) was a Salvadoran politician who served as the acting president of El Salvador in 1884 and as the president of the Legislative Assembly in 1884 and 1885.

Biography

Ángel Guirola de la Cotera was born in Zacatecoluca, Federal Republic of Central America, on 5 August 1826. His parents were Rafael María Guírola and Gertrudis de la Cotera y González. He married Cordelia Duke Alexander in 1859 in New York City. He had seven children: José Adalberto (who died during the Third Totoposte War), Rafael, Ángel, Eduardo, Julia, Lulú, and Matilde.

Guirola was elected as the mayor of San Vicente in 1852. He was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1866 from the department of San Salvador.

He died on 27 April 1910 in Nueva San Salvador, El Salvador (modern-day Santa Tecla).