Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno ( born February 6, 1859 in Cartago, † January 4, 1945 in San José ) was three times president of Costa Rica.
Life
His parents were Oreamuno Esmeralda Gutierrez, daughter of Francisco María Jesús Jiménez Zamora and Oreamuno Bonilla.
His first wife was Beatriz Zamora López, María Eugenia Calvo his second wife Badia. In this marriage Esmeralda Jiménez Calvo was born.
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno studied at the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga de Cartago and was Licenciado en Leyes at the Universidad de Santo Tomás. He published a course on public education, numerous articles and essays on public and legal topics.
He was the owner of high-yielding cattle ranches in Cartago and Puntarenas and several times a member of the Junta de Caridad de San José.
As Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón wanted a 1885 Economic Integration of Central America prevail militarily was Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno Government Agent Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico.
1886 was Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno Government Agent Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro in Mexico, Government Minister, Minister of Police and Public Education.
Until the closure of the Catholic University of Santo Tomas [ wp 1] 1888 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno of Mauro Fernández Acuña Minister of Education was used as its rector.
From 1888 to 1889 was Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno delegate of the Government Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro at Congreso Centroamericano de San Jose.
From October 1888 to 1890 was Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno Foreign Minister [ wp 2].
From 1889 to 1890, Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno finance and trade ministers.
In the second round of the presidential elections in 1890 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor received all the votes from among Puerto Limón without having a candidate.
In May 1890, Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor was appointed as Chief Justice for 1890-1894. After President José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledon had dissolved parliament in 1892, Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor resigned from the presidency of the Supreme Court back [ wp 3].
From 1902 to 1906 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. In 1906 he was elected president in this Parliament. From 1902 to 1906 he was deputy president [ wp 4] Ascension Esquivel Ibarra.
In 1906 he was Member of Parliament for San Jose and fell through his opposition to several treaties which closed the executive under Cleto González Víquez with the United Fruit Company, on.
From 1909 to 1910 he was Chairman of the Constituent Assembly. For the presidential election were standing next to Ricardo Jiménez, General Jorge Volio Jiménez [ wp 5] of the Partido Paulista reform and Alberto Echandi. [ Wp 6] The President should be elected by the parliament.
Presidential May 8, 1910 - May 8, 1914
On April 4, 1910, a major earthquake in Cartago Departamiento occurred.
During his tenure began with the reconstruction.
Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto 1917 coup.
1917 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor was a member of a panel of former presidents, which drafted a constitution.
From 1919 to 1920, Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor assessors to the Supreme Court.
Presidential May 8, 1924 - May 8, 1928
For the legislative period 1922-1926, he was a delegate for San José in a Constituent Assembly. In the presidential election in December 1923, he received the most votes, but missed an absolute majority, which is why the Constituent Assembly the choice between Alberto Echandi Montero, the candidate of the Partido Agrícola and met him. With the help of the Partido Paulista reform which was led by General Jorge Volio Jiménez put him Partido Nacional Republicano [ wp 7] in the Constituent Assembly as president for the term 1924-1928 by. In 1928 he signed the law on the establishment of the Banco Nacional de Seguros, today Instituto Nacional de Seguros, even though he had years before, violently attacked this insurance, when it was proposed in Parliament by Mr Alfredo González Flores.
In this period, an agricultural school and a health ministry has started the electrification of the San Jose - Puntarenas, furnished.
On February 12, 1928 President [ wp 8] was selected in Costa Rica for the first time in direct, secret ballot. Was elected the candidate of the Partido Nacional Union [ wp 9], Cleto González Víquez.
To relieve state and charitable institutions of costs from the healthcare propagated Cleto González Víquez from 1928 on the advice of Max Koberg the establishment of a joint health insurance system.
Presidential May 8, 1932 - May 8, 1936
From 1930 to 1932 he was Nachrückabgeordneter. A confrontation with the policies of President Cleto González Víquez he evaded. In the presidential elections on 14 February 1932 he again received the most votes, but missed again an absolute majority, which is why a second ballot to decide between him and the candidate of the Partido Union, Republican, Manuel Castro Quesada [ wp 10] was provided. On the morning of February 15, 1932 Manuel Castro Quesada stormed the barracks with a group Buena Vista. After the failure of this Bellavistazo -called coup attempt Manuel Castro Quesada renounced the candidacy.
The Parliament then elected a president, but called Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno as deputy to the President Cleto González Víquez to the presidency.
The Ferrocarril al Pacifico developed into a lucrative railway companies. In the port of Puntarenas on the Pacific coast, a lighthouse was built and anchored aids to navigation in the Golfo de Nicoya [ wp 11].
In the Zona Atlantica went on strike in 1934 with Carlos Luis Fallas banana workers [ wp 12].
It Unidades Sanitarias health posts have been set up spending what drugs for the fight against malaria and hookworm.
The presidential elections were held on February 9, 1936 instead of Lic León Cortés Castro received 40 % of votes cast.
With the end of the term of office in 1936 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor agreed to retire from politics.
In 1939 he was re- named as presidential candidate for the elections in 1940. The government of President León Cortés Castro exerted pressure in favor of the candidate Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. The followers of Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor were persecuted and their newspapers were closed. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor withdrew his candidacy.
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamunor practiced until the last years of his life from his career and published his opinion.
Since he lived in a modest house for rent, it was proposed to pay him a pension from public funds so that he could buy a house, which he refused energetic.