Pedro José Rada y Gamio

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rada and the second or maternal family name is Gamio.

Pedro José Rada y Gamio (15 August 1873 – 25 May 1938)^[1] was a Peruvian politician in the early 20th century. He served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1921 to 1922.^[2] He was the mayor of Lima from 1922 to 1925 and the prime minister of Peru from 7 December 1926 to 12 October 1929.

Pedro Rada

In 1924, while Minister of Development during the reign of Augusto B. Leguía, Rada y Gamio inaugurated a statue dedicated to the dictator and proclaimed that "Current times need constructive statesmen that can preserve the Fatherland and the social order, such as Mussolini in Italy, Lloyd George in England, Leguía in Peru". In 1926, Rada y Gamio delivered a rationale for his government's oppression of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance and the Peruvian Socialist Party by describing "red books" as promoting "dishonest, stupid ideas and malignant actions", and likewise leftist opponents of the Leguía dictatorship in general as "soulless men", "vulgar assassins", "worthless and useless", among other descriptions.^[3]