Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno | |
Office: | Acting President of Ecuador |
Term Start: | 1 October 1931 |
Term End: | 31 August 1932 |
Predecessor: | Luis Larrea Alba |
Successor: | Carlos Freile Larrea |
Term Start2: | 1 August 1912 |
Term End2: | 30 September 1912 |
Predecessor2: | Francisco Andrade Marín |
Successor2: | Leónidas Plaza |
Order3: | 19th |
Office3: | President of Ecuador |
Term Start3: | 1 September 1916 |
Term End3: | 31 August 1920 |
Predecessor3: | Leónidas Plaza |
Successor3: | José Luis Tamayo |
Office4: | Vice President of Ecuador |
Term Start4: | 1 September 1905 |
Term End4: | 15 January 1906 |
President4: | Lizardo García |
Successor4: | Abolished |
Term Start5: | 1 October 1903 |
Term End5: | 31 August 1905 |
President5: | Leónidas Plaza |
Predecessor5: | Carlos Freire Zaldumbide |
Birth Name: | Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1859 |
Birth Place: | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
Death Place: | New York City, New York, USA |
Party: | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party |
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (28 September 1859, in Guayaquil – 20 March 1951) was an Ecuadorian politician. He served as Vice President of Ecuador of Leónidas Plaza and Lizardo García from 1903 to 1906[1] and as President of Ecuador three times in August – September 1912, September 1916[2] – August 1920 and October 1931 – August 1932. He was President of the Senate from 1912 to 1915, and in 1930. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party.
Moreno is noted for sanctioning the abolition of the agricultural practice of Spanish; Castilian: [[concertaje]],[3] which was a system of contracted debt that held Indian hacienda laborers called Spanish; Castilian: conceirtos under threat of imprisonment.[4] His administration was also considered a factor in the public disenchantment that led to the July Revolution of July 9, 1925.[5]