Leónidas Plaza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leónidas Plaza

President of Ecuador

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1865

Place of Birth: Ecuador

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1932

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Ecuador

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes (April 18, 1865 – November 17, 1932) was an Ecuadorian politician who was the president of Ecuador for two separate occasions, from September 1, 1901 to August 31, 1905 and again from September 1, 1912 to August 31, 1916. He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez de Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy.
He married María Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children.
One of them, Galo Plaza, was also president of Ecuador.
He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900.