Julio Acosta GarcÃa
Julio Acosta García ( * May 23, 1872 in San Ramón de los Palmares, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, † July 6, 1954 in San José ) was from May 8, 1920 - May 8, 1924 President of Costa Rica.
Life
His parents were Jesús García woman Zumbado and Juan Vicente Acosta Chaves. He studied at the Instituto Nacional and at the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga in Cartago.
From 1902 to 1906 he was Member of Parliament for Alajuela. In 1907 he was appointed consul of Costa Rica, El Salvador. Later he was a representative and special envoy to the government of El Salvador. He married on April 16, 1910 in San Salvador Elena Gallegos Rosales, the daughter of Elena Rosales Ventura and Salvador Gallegos Valdez.
He was governor of the Provincia de Alajuela. In 1915 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs [ wp 1]. He was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs, Central America, who had visited all the Central American governments. 1917 by the coup led by General José Joaquín [ wp 2] Alberto Federico Tinoco Granados and he lost the post of foreign minister.
In exile in Nicaragua, he belonged to the opposition to Tinocoa. As Tinoco left from the U.S. observation about the Puerto Limón Costa Rica on August 14, 1919, Acosta was proclaimed in New York City as President of Costa Rica, and commissioned Francisco Aguilar Barquero elections arrange ..
On August 27, 1919 General José Joaquín Tinoco Granados was killed ..
On December 7, 1919 Julio Acosta García was elected for the term 1920-1924 President.
Presidency
1920 was a Central American Conference held in San Jose.
End of February 1921, President Belisario Porras Barahona of Panama mobilize troops. The border dispute with Costa Rica was ended with the landing of the USMC.
On 27 June 1922, a telegram from Warren G. Harding opened the All-America Cable Inc., a telegraph line between Panama and Costa Rica ..
During his tenure, the colones were extending Tinoco has them printed declared invalid, leading to a controversy with the Government of the United Kingdom led what about the branch of the Royal Bank of Canada, Costa Rican colones a par value of one million by Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados was exchanged for a quarter million USD. The British and the Costa Rican government agreed to William Howard Taft to arbitrate in Caso Tinoco [ wp 3] on January 12, 1922 .. Taft did his Laudo Taft 1923.
From 1932 to 1936 he was deputy [ wp 4] President Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno. From 1932 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1941 he was Member of Parliament for San Jose. From 1941 to 1942, the Junta Nacional de Electricidad sat in front. From 1942 to 1944 the head of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. From 1944 to 1948 he was again foreign minister and represented Costa Rica at the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 in San Francisco ..