Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra
Ascension Esquivel Ibarra ( born May 10, 1844 in Las Piedras, Departamento de Rivas, Nicaragua, † April 15, 1923 in San José ) was dated May 8, 1902 to May 1, 1906 to the President of Costa Rica.
Life
His parents were Antonia Ibarra and José María Esquivel. The first time he married Herminia Boza Boza y († 1894), with her he had a daughter Hortensia Esquivel Boza, who died as a child. Then he married Adela Salazar Guardia (1869-1907), with her he had the daughter of Flora Esquivel Salazar, she married Manuel León - Páez. The third time he married on December 4, 1909 Cristina Salazar Guardia, the sister of his second wife.
1854 Esquivel Ibarra lived in Liberia, the capital of Guanacaste in Costa Rica. According to the Constitution of 1869, he was so Costa Ricans. Later he was appointed consul of Nicaragua in Costa Rica.
He studied law at the Universidad de Santo Tomás and became one of the most eminent lawyers of Costa Rica. For many years he was a professor at the Escuela de Derecho. He was secretary of the Sociedad Científica Literaria de Costa Rica. During the dictatorship of Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez he was expatriated.
Ascension Esquivel Ibarra was criminal judges, city council in San José, 1885 Ambassador of Costa Rica to Nicaragua. From 1885 to 1886, from 1887 to 1888 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1886-1890 Vice President and 1886-1887 Ambassador of Costa Rica in Guatemala.
Presidential 1 May to 10 August 1889
From May 1 to August 10, 1889 Bernardo Soto Alfaro as he represented President. For the election in November, December 1889, the Partido Liberal Progresista was formed, which nominated Ascension Esquivel Ibarra as a presidential candidate. However, became president José Rodríguez.
From 1894 to 1898 he was third deputy to the President. In 1896 he was represented by Bernardo Soto Alfaro at Miguel Antonio Caro.
Presidential May 8, 1902 - May 1, 1906
In the elections of April 1902, he became president as the candidate of the Partido Civil. His administration was marked by Austeritätsstreben. On November 3, 1903 Costa Rica received a new southern neighbor, Panama had been cleaved from Colombia.
1906 a new Criminal Procedure Code was decreed. Before the presidential elections in 1906, he decreed a state of emergency.
After the first ballot, he pointed Bernardo Soto Alfaro; Octavia Garcia, editor of Republica in San José; But the lawyer Pacheco, Máximo Fernández Alvarado, according to other sources also Tobías Zúñiga Castro from Costa Rica from.
According to the official count Cleto González Víquez received 23 422 votes and the other three candidates combined 33,032 votes in the first ballot. Bernardo Soto Alfaro and Máximo Fernández Alvarado came back after the first round of the candidacy and gave a recommendation to vote for Tobías Zúñiga Castro, which was designed by Ascension Esquivel Ibarra as a conspiracy. So he could Cleto González Víquez prevail as his successor in the presidency.
In 1907 he was a representative of the government Cleto González Víquez on the third Pan American Conference in Rio de Janeiro, where he gave the opening speech. In 1917 he was member of a commission from former President, who drafted a constitution.
From 1917 to 1920 he was president of the Supreme Court