Alejandro Alvarado García

Alejandro Alvarado García (León, Nicaragua, January 9, 1839 - San José, Costa Rica, September 11, 1922) was a Costa Rican lawyer.

Biography

He was born in León, Nicaragua on January 9, 1839. Son of Pedro Pablo Alvarado y Solano, Costa Rican, and Ana María García y Matus, Nicaraguan. He married in San José on November 19, 1871 Carolina Quirós Morales (1847-1941), daughter of José Antonio Quirós y Blanco and Juana Morales y Valverde. Children of this marriage were: José María (1872), Juan Alejandro Víctor Teodorico de Jesús (1873), Ana María Libia Carolina del Rosario (1874), Alejandro Alvarado Quirós, b. Alejandro Víctor Teodorico (1876), lawyer and diplomat, married María Eugenia Piza Chamorro, Federico Carlos Augusto (1881), doctor, married Victoria Béeche.

He graduated as a lawyer from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala.

He was Undersecretary of the Interior in the second administration of President José Castro Madriz and Judge in Alajuela and Puntarenas. In 1870 he was appointed magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, a position he held on several occasions. In 1889 he represented Costa Rica in the Central American Unionist Conference of El Salvador and from 1889 to 1890 he was Secretary of the Interior and related portfolios.

In 1904 he was elected president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica for the period 1904-1908. He was re-elected for the terms 1908-1912 and 1912-1916, but resigned in 1915 for health reasons.

He was Rector of the University of Santo Tomás and president of the Bar Association in 1887 and 1903.

Death

He died in San José, Costa Rica, on September 11, 1922 at the age of 83.