Gonzalo Córdova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gonzalo Córdova

President of Ecuador

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1863

Place of Birth: Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1928

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Ecuador

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (July 15, 1863 – April 13, 1928) was President of Ecuador from 1924-1925.
Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered to be a pawn of "La Argolla" ("the ring"), a plutocracy of coastal agricultural and banking interests whose linchpin was the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Guayaquil led by Francisco Urbina Jado. Popular unrest, together with an ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the foundations for a bloodless coup d'état against Córdova in July 1925.
Unlike previous coups in Ecuador, the 1925 coup was in the name of a collective grouping, the League of Young Officers, rather than a particular caudillo. He was President of the Senate in 1918.