Gonzalo Córdova

Gonzalo Córdova


21st President of Ecuador
In office 1 September 1924 – 9 July 1925
Preceded by	José Luis Tamayo
Succeeded by	Luis Telmo Paz

Personal details
Born	(1863-07-15)15 July 1863 Guayaquil, Ecuador
Died	13 April 1928(1928-04-13) (aged 64) Valparaíso, Chile
Political party	Radical Liberal

Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (15 July 1863 – 13 April 1928) was President of Ecuador from 1924–1925. Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered^{[by whom?]} to be a pawn of "La Argolla" ("the ring"), a plutocracy of coastal agricultural and banking interests whose linchpin was the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Guayaquil led by Francisco Urbina Jado.

Popular unrest, together with an ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the foundations for a bloodless coup d'état against Córdova in July 1925. Unlike previous coups in Ecuador, the 1925 coup was in the name of a collective grouping, the League of Young Officers, rather than a particular caudillo.

He was President of the Senate in 1918.