José JoaquÃn RodrÃguez Zeledón
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledon ( born January 6, 1838 in San Jose, † November 30, 1917 ibid ) was from May 8, 1890 to May 8, 1894 President of Costa Rica.
Life
His parents were Zeledon Francisca Aguilar and Sebastián Rodríguez Mora.
He married Luisa Alvarado Carrillo. One of their children was Manuela Rodríguez Alvarado, Rafael Yglesias Castro married this.
He began studying law at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and this interrupted for economic and family reasons and Costa Rica returned. Later he was at the Universidad de Santo Tomás de San José, Licenciado en Leyes.
He was registrador general de hipotecas a prototypical Land Registry, head of the Apostolic Nunciature of Notary San José and chairman of the Bar Association of Costa Rica
From 1863 to 1864 he was Nachrückabgeordneter in Parliament for San Jose. In 1872 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court by the Parliament. His term would have been regularly until 1876. However, in 1874 the dictator Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez dismissed him verfassungwidirg from this office. He was a delegate for San Jose in the Constituent Assembly in 1880 which was also dissolved by Guardia.
In November 1886 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs [ wp 1] and in December 1886 he resigned from this office back when he had the father of Bernardo Soto Alfaro incumbent disagreements with the Executive President Apolinar de Jesús Soto Quesada [ wp 2].
In 1887 he was elected President of the Court of Cassation, which took office in 1888. This newly created position was associated with the Presidency of the High Court [ wp 3].
The Partido Constitucional [ wp 4] a conservative party, set it up as candidates for the elections from 1889 to 1890 and the first round of voting took place on November 3, 1889, on 7 November 1889, the votes were counted.
On November 7, 1889 Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro handed the presidency to his third deputy Dr. Carlos Durán Cartín.
After Víctor Guardia Gutiérrez [ wp 5] had declared dictator, occupied armed supporters of Joaquín Rodríguez police headquarters in Costa Rica.
On the first Sunday in December, 1889, the second round of voting took place. Joaquín Rodríguez had received more votes than his competitor from the State party, the Partido Liberal Progresista, Ascension Esquivel Ibarra.
Presidency
In 1892, he dissolved parliament and declared a state of emergency ruled as a dictator and gave the end of his term as president to his son Rafael Yglesias Castro.
During his tenure, the construction of the Teatro Nacional was started.
From 1894 to 1898 during the first term of his son, he was a deputy [ wp 6] and from 1898 to 1902 he was again President of the Court of Cassation.