Manuel María Ponce Brousset

Manuel María Ponce Brousset
Interim President of Peru
In office
August 25, 1930 – August 27, 1930
Prime MinisterLuis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Preceded byAugusto B. Leguía
Succeeded byLuis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Personal details
BornApril 5, 1874
Arequipa, Peru
DiedJuly 18, 1966 (aged 92)
Lima, Peru
Political partyRevolutionary 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 92.

References

  1. ^ Martín, José Carlos (1974). El general Manuel María Ponce (in Spanish). Compania de Impresiones y Publicidad. p. 7.
  2. ^ Martín, José Carlos (1974). El general Manuel María Ponce (in Spanish). Compania de Impresiones y Publicidad. p. 26.
  3. ^ Pease, Henry; Romero, Gonzalo (2014). La política en el Perú del siglo XX (in Spanish). Fondo Editorial de la PUCP. ISBN 978-612-4146-90-9.
Political offices
Preceded by President of Peru
1930 		Succeeded by


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