Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Máximo Fernández Alvarado | |
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado c.1900 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 18, 1858 Desamparados, Costa Rica |
| Died | February 10, 1933 (aged 74) San José, Costa Rica |
| Political party | Republican Party |
| Parent(s) | José Francisco Fernández Quezada Juana Alvarado Madrigal |
| Education | University of Santo Tomás |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer |
Máximo Fernández Alvarado (1858–1933) was a Costa Rican 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.