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Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra

Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra President of Costa Rica
Term of office:	8 May 1902 to 8 May 1906
– Preceded by:	Rafael Yglesias Castro
– Succeeded by:	Cleto González Víquez (first term)
Date of birth:	10 May 1844
Place of birth:	Rivas, Nicaragua
Date of death:	15 April 1923
Place of death:	San José
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Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra was President of Costa Rica from 1902 to 1906.

Born in the Nicaraguan town of Rivas, he became a naturalized Costa Rican in 1869.

He first ran for the presidency in 1889, but was defeated by José Joaquín Rodríguez. The election that saw him elected in 1901 was his second presidential bid.

After his presidential term, he served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, from 1917 to 1920.

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Cleto González Víquez | List of Presidents of Costa Rica | President of Costa Rica | Rafael Yglesias Castro

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