Leónidas Plaza

Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez y Caviedes^[1] (18 April 1865 – 17 November 1933) was an Ecuadorian politician who was the President of Ecuador from 1 September 1901 to 31 August 1905 and again from 1 September 1912 to 31 August 1916.

Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez
16th President of Ecuador
In office 1 September 1912 – 31 August 1916
Preceded by	Francisco Andrade Marín
Succeeded by	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
In office 1 September 1901 – 31 August 1905
Vice President	Carlos Freire Zaldumbide (1901—1903) Alfredo Baquerizo (1903—1905)
Preceded by	Eloy Alfaro
Succeeded by	Lizardo García
Personal details
Born	Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez y Caviedes (1865-04-18)18 April 1865 Charapotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador
Died	17 November 1933(1933-11-17) (aged 68) Huigra, Guayas, Ecuador
Political party	Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party
Spouse	Avelina Lasso Ascázubi ​ ​ (m. 1905)​
Children	Galo Plaza Lasso
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Plaza and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.

He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez y Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy. He married María Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them, Galo Plaza, was also president of Ecuador.^[2] He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900. He was Minister of Finance in 1911.