Luis A. Eguiguren
Luis Antonio Eguiguren Escudero (July 21, 1887 in
Piura – August 15, 1967 in
Lima) was a Peruvian educator, magistrate, historian and politician. He was the director of the
General Archive (File) of the Nation (1914), Alderman of Lima (1914–1920),
Mayor of Lima (1930), President of the Constituent Congress (1930–1932), founder and leader of the
Peruvian Social Democratic Party. He won the
Peruvian presidential election of 1936, but his victory was ignored by the Congress and the then-President
Oscar R. Benavides, who claimed that he had won with votes of the
APRA. He presided over the
Supreme Court and the
Judiciary in 1953 and 1954.
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