José Luis Tamayo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Ecuador
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Place of Birth: Guayas Province, Ecuador
About José Luis Tamayo
- José Luis Tamayo Terán (29 July 1858 – 7 July 1947) was President of Ecuador from 1 September 1920 to 31 August 1924. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party.
- He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1898, and President of the Senate in 1905.
- He was the last Ecuadoran President to complete a full term in office until Galo Plaza Lasso did so nearly a quarter-century later.Among Tamayo's actions in office was to promulgate Ecuador's first regulations regarding the oil industry, although the law had little practical effect.
- He was also active in establishing vice taxes in order to fund programs to arrest the spread of venereal disease among the prostitutes of Quito.
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