About Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Lived 1858 – 1933 (aged 74). Máximo Fernández Alvarado was a Costa Rican politician and lawyer.
Máximo Fernández Alvarado (18 November 185810 February 1933) was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician.
Born in Desamparados in 1858, he graduated as a Bachelor in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas at fourteen years old and as a lawyer in the same institution in 1881 with merit.
He occupied several important positions, among them these are Secretary of State, Deputy and President of the Constitutional Congress 1913–1914 and 1916–1917. He founded the Partido Republicano, an ideology that combined doctrines of liberalism and populism, and was a candidate to the presidency in Costa Rican elections of 1902, 1906 and 1913. On several occasions he was exiled for political reasons. He also published a poetic anthology.
He died in San José in 1933.
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Costa Rican politician
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado was born on 18 November 1858 in Desamparados.
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado died on 10 February 1933 in San José.
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado was a politician and lawyer.
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado was Costa Rican.
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