Peru President Leguia y Salcedo 1921 Signed Document with National Seal!

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Peru President Leguia y Salcedo 1921 Signed Document with National Seal! Large 13" x 16.25" diplomatic appointment with elaborate seal dated June 2, 1921. Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo (1863 – 1932) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru , from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.Augusto Leguía was born in Lambayeque in 1863, and later married into one of the most distinguished families of the Peruvian oligarchy. Educated in Valparaíso , Chile , he served in the Peruvian Army during the War of the Pacific (1879–1881).After the war he moved to the United States and became an insurance executive with the New York Life Insurance Company . By the 1900s, Leguía had become very wealthy and decided to return to Peru. He entered politics in 1903 at the urging of Manuel Candamo (the then leader of the Civilista Party ) and also of José Pardo , who was Prime Minister . Leguía took the position of Minister of Finance , a post he would retain until 1904, when the former Prime Minister José Pardo became president. Pardo offered the position of Prime Minister to Leguía, who accepted and remained so until 1907, when he resigned to run for the presidency the following year. Leguía portrayed on the cover of Time (1930) In 1908 he succeeded José Pardo (a succession event that would occur again in 1919) after being elected president for the first time by an alliance of the Civil and Constitutional parties. Some of Leguía's first actions were to institute social and economic reforms in an attempt to industrialize Peru and turn it into a modern capitalist society.On May 29, 1909, a group of citizens (supporters of Piérola's Democratic Party ) managed to force their entry into the Palacio de Gobierno demanding the resignation of Leguía. Among the group were the brother and sons of Piérola; Carlos de Piérola , Isaías de Piérola and Amadeo de Piérola . Since Leguía did not resign as planned, they kidnapped him and took him in front of the Bolivar Monument (located in Plaza inquisicion in Lima). Once there, Leguía did not acquiesce to their demands, and the police had to forcibly rescue the president in the midst of a fight that caused at least 100 deaths.When Leguía's term ended in 1912, he was succeeded by Guillermo Billinghurst , a millionaire businessman who had been the former mayor of Lima . During the following years, Leguía travelled in the United Kingdom and the United States , where he learned methods of banking and finance that he would later apply in Peru. During this time, Leguia was already in conflict with the Civilista Party and left its organization.In 1919, he again sought the presidency of Peru by trying to succeed José Pardo. Fearing that the former president's government along with the Civilist Parliament would not recognise his victory, he launched a successful military coup, which led Leguía to succeed Pardo as an interim president. He then proceeded to dissolve Congress and the new parliament elected him constitutional president of Peru.Leguía changed the Peruvian constitution (which had the longest continuance since 1860), and promulgated a new one in 1920, which was more liberal than its predecessor and provided more civil guarantees and unlimited reelections. Nevertheless, having himself promulgated the constitution, Augusto B. Leguía almost completely ignored it.The years of his tenure were marked with a dictatorial style of ruling by suppressing all opposition harshly.Various political opponents of his government were exiled, of which the most prominent was Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre , who while in exile in Mexico founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) in 1924. It became one of modern Peru's most active and also most trouble-maker political parties. Another important political figure that would emerge during this era was José Carlos Mariátegui , leader of the Communist Party of Peru .Among the positive initiatives that occurred during Leguía's second term was a program to modernize ... read more

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