Leónidas Plaza
Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez de Caviedes was an Ecuadorian politician who was the president of Ecuador for two separate occasions, from September 1, 1901 to August 31, 1905 and again from September 1, 1912 to August 31, 1916.
He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, AlegrÃa Gutiérrez de Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy. He married MarÃa Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them, Galo Plaza, was also president of Ecuador. He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900.
