Juan Lindolfo Cuestas

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name=Juan Lindolfo Cuestas
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term_start=August 25, 1897
term_end=February 15, 1899
March 1, 1899 – March 1, 1903
predecessor=Juan Idiarte Borda (1897)
José Batlle y Ordóñez (1899, "acting")
successor=José Batlle y Ordóñez (1899, "acting")
José Batlle y Ordóñez (1903)
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birth_place=Paysandú, Uruguay
dead=yes
death_date=death date and age|1905|6|21|1837|1|6|df=y
death_place=Paris, France
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party=Colorado
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Juan Lindolfo Cuestas (6 January 1837 - 21 June 1905) was a Uruguayan politician and served as the president of Uruguay from 1897 until 1899 and for a second term from 1899 to 1903.

Background

Juan Lindolfo Cuestas was a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party, which dominated the country's politics for over a century.

His son, Juan Cuestas, was a diplomat.

President of Uruguay

(First term)

Lindolfo Cuestas first assumed the Presidency in crisis circumstances . [ 'Juan Lindolfo Cuestas', Wikipedia (in Spanish), , ] On August 25 1897 the sitting President of Uruguay, Juan Idiarte Borda was assassinated by a gunman, Avelino Arredondo.

Within two years Lindolfo Cuestas had ceded the Presidency to José Batlle y Ordóñez on an interim basis.

(Second term)

He soon reassumed the office, however, and served until 1903, when he again stepped down in favour of José Batlle y Ordóñez.

Political background

Lindolfo Cuestas's periods of Presidential office were characterized by crises, not only originating from the assassination of Idiarte, but also by internal dissentions within the Colorado Party and by strife with the Opposition Blanco Party, which continued to propel the country into outbreaks of the intermittent Civil War which beset Uruguay throughout the mid- to late- 19th century.

Post Presidency

After relinquishing the Presidency for the second time, in 1903, the country soon slipped into civil war, the decisive battle of which was the Battle of Masoller in 1904. Lindolfo Cuestas died in 1905.

ee also

* Politics of Uruguay

* List_of_political_families#Uruguay

References

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