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Adolfo Díaz

1875 - 1964

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Adolfo Díaz Recinos (15 July 1875 in Alajuela, Costa Rica – 29 January 1964 in San José, Costa Rica) served as the President of Nicaragua between 9 May 1911 and 1 January 1917 and again between 14 November 1926 and 1 January 1929. Born in Costa Rica to Nicaraguan parents in 1875, he worked as a secretary for the La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Company, an American company chartered in Delaware that owned the large gold mines around Siuna in eastern Nicaragua. In this capacity, he helped channel funds to the revolt against Liberal President José Santos Zelaya, who had incurred the anger of the United States by negotiating with Germany and Japan to resurrect the proposed Nicaragua Canal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolfo Díaz has received more than 69,965 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolfo Díaz is the 12,331st most popular politician (up from 13,173rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Adolfo Díaz ranks 12,331 out of 19,576. Before him are Marina Silva, Ants Antson, Adolf Ogi, Kay Ivey, Ashur-nadin-ahhe II, and Khin Nyunt. After him are Võ Văn Kiệt, Gogugwon of Goguryeo, Köprülüzade Numan Pasha, Artaxias II of Iberia, Anton Seidl, and Norbert Lammert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Adolfo Díaz ranks 114. Before him are Kunio Yanagita, Italo Montemezzi, Leonor Michaelis, Friedrich von Huene, William Hoyt, and Otto Strandman. After him are Ramiro de Maeztu, Elisabeth von Gutmann, William D. Leahy, Fritz Manteuffel, Juho Sunila, and Beppo Levi. Among people deceased in 1964, Adolfo Díaz ranks 111. Before him are Rudolph Maté, Henry Maitland Wilson, Olga Desmond, Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Marx, and Maksym Rylsky. After him are Brendan Behan, Amrit Kaur, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Eugen Varga, Maurice Farman, and Moa Martinson.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Adolfo Díaz ranks 8 out of 134. Before him are Chavela Vargas (1919), Keylor Navas (1986), Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Christiana Figueres (1956), and Abel Pacheco (1933). After him are Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Giannina Facio (1955), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), and Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Adolfo Díaz ranks 4. Before him are Óscar Arias (1940), Laura Chinchilla (1959), and Abel Pacheco (1933). After him are Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940).

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