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Leonidas Plaza Gutierrez
(April 19, 1865 ? November 17, 1932) was president of Ecuador for two separate occasions: From September 1, 1901 to August 31, 1905 and from September 1, 1912 to August 31, 1916.
He was the son of Jose Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegria Gutierrez de Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with arostocratic features and exquisite social manners of
Colombian
descent. He married Maria Avelina Lasso Ascazubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them,
Galo Plaza
, was also president of Ecuador.