POLITICIAN

José María Castro Madriz

1818 - 1892

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José María Castro Madriz (1 September 1818 – 4 April 1892) was a Costa Rican lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician. He served twice as President of Costa Rica, from 1848 to 1849, and from 1866 to 1868. On both occasions he was prevented from completing his term of office by military coups. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José María Castro Madriz has received more than 66,044 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). José María Castro Madriz is the 13,850th most popular politician (down from 13,614th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 19th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José María Castro Madriz ranks 13,850 out of 19,576. Before him are Élisabeth Baume-Schneider, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Jan Jacob Rochussen, Rahul Gandhi, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani. After him are Constantin Coandă, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Shah Jahan II, Zinovios Valvis, and S. Yizhar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, José María Castro Madriz ranks 74. Before him are Ole Jacob Broch, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Mikhail Katkov, Lucy Stone, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Thomas Francis Wade. After him are Joseph Roumanille, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, František Ladislav Rieger, Jan Heemskerk, Wilhelm Camphausen, and Irvin McDowell. Among people deceased in 1892, José María Castro Madriz ranks 62. Before him are Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Eduard August von Regel, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, and Archibald Scott Couper. After him are Henri Duveyrier, Fanny Churberg, Robert Franz, Caroline Harrison, John Pope, and Pashko Vasa.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, José María Castro Madriz ranks 15 out of 134. Before 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). After him are Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), and Luis Alberto Monge (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, José María Castro Madriz ranks 9. Before him are Abel Pacheco (1933), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), and Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926). After him are Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), and Luis Alberto Monge (1925).

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