Máximo Fernández Alvarado

Máximo Fernández Alvarado (1858–1933) was a Costa Rican politician.^[1]

Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Fernández Alvarado c.1900
President of the Constitutional Congress
In office 1 May 1916 – 27 January 1917
Preceded by	Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas
Succeeded by	Arturo Volio Jiménez
In office 1 May 1913 – 30 May 1914
Preceded by	Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias
Succeeded by	Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas
Deputy of the Constitutional Congress
In office 1 May 1912 – 27 January 1917
Constituency	San José Province
Personal details
Born	(1858-11-18)18 November 1858 Desamparados, Costa Rica
Died	10 February 1933(1933-02-10) (aged 74) San José, Costa Rica
Political party	Republican Party
Parent(s)	José Francisco Fernández Quezada Juana Alvarado Madrigal
Education	University of Santo Tomás
Occupation	Politician, lawyer

Born in Desamparados in 1858, he graduated as a Bachelor in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas at fourteen years old and as a lawyer in the same institution in 1881 with merit.^[1]

He occupied several important positions, among them these are Secretary of State, Deputy and President of the Constitutional Congress 1913–1914 and 1916–1917. He founded^{[citation needed]} the Partido Republicano, an ideology that combined doctrines of liberalism and populism, and was a candidate to the presidency in Costa Rican elections of 1902, 1906 and 1913.^[1] On several occasions he was exiled for political reasons.^{[citation needed]}He also published a poetic anthology.^[1]

He died in San José in 1933.^[1]