Manuel María Ponce Brousset | |
Office: | Interim President of Peru |
Term Start: | August 25, 1930 |
Term End: | August 27, 1930 |
Primeminister: | Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro |
Predecessor: | Augusto B. Leguía |
Successor: | Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro |
Birth Date: | April 5, 1874 |
Birth Place: | Arequipa, Peru |
Death Date: | July 18, 1966 (aged 92) |
Death Place: | Lima, Peru |
Party: | Revolutionary Union |
Manuel María Ponce Brousset (April 5, 1874 in Arequipa, Peru[1] – July 18, 1966 in Lima[2]) who briefly served as the President of Peru in August 1930.
After Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro overthrew Augusto B. Leguía's eleven-year dictatorship through a coup d'état in Arequipa, Ponce assumed the two-day interim presidency until Sánchez Cerro arrived in Lima and was designated as Leguía's successor.[3] Brousset died in July 18, 1966 at the age of .