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(Redirected from Juan Angel Arias Boquin) President of Honduras For the President in 1829/1830, see Juan Ángel Arias. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arias and the second or maternal family name is Boquín.

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Juan Ángel Arias Boquín

President of Honduras
In office 1 February 1903 – 13 April 1903
Vice President	Máximo Betancourt Rosales
Preceded by	Terencio Sierra
Succeeded by	Manuel Bonilla

Personal details
Born	1859 (1859) Comayagua
Died	1927
Political party	Liberal Party of Honduras

Juan Ángel Arias Boquín (7 August 1859 – 29 April 1927) was President of Honduras 1 February – 13 April 1903.

He was Member of the Partido Liberal de Honduras. Manuel Bonilla finished first in the elections of 1902 but the Honduran Congress didn't gave him presidency by law, because Manuel Bonilla was an outlaw. Juan Ángel Arias Boquín finished second in the elections of 1902, but when President Terencio Sierra refused to give up the office, the Honduran Congress voted Arias president. After two and a half months in office he was overthrown by General Manuel Bonilla and imprisoned.

History

On 23 February 1903, the political contest between Dr. Marco Aurelio Soto, General Manuel Bonilla (Juticalpa, 1849–1913) and Dr. Juan Angel Arias Boquin (Comayagua, 1859, Guatemala 1927) who at that time lived in Santa Rosa and had been a candidate for president of Honduras, getting away with it and proclaimed President, his opponents will recognize as the "usurper government". Moreover, the General Don Ezequiel Ferrera who had suffered a defeat in Santa Rosa Ocotepeque reached alarming the general population to leave the homes they left the next day due north of the country's leading families, as well as officials municipal and military leaving the town without a head. The time they reached the troops of General Manuel Bonilla they entered without resistance taking the city to their liking. Then the General Ezequiel Ferrera return with an army to deal with the revolutionaries in the town of Talgua, after hours of fighting, General Ferrera was defeated.

Footnotes

Profile of Juan Ángel Arias Boquín
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Political offices
Preceded byTerencio Sierra	President of Honduras 1903	Succeeded byManuel Bonilla

v t e Presidents and heads of state of Honduras
1821–1839	Herrera Milla Bendaña Jeronimo Zelaya Bustamante Morazán Vigil Cocaña Morazán Ángel Arias Morazán Valle Marquez Milla Guevara Rivera Martinez Salinas Herrera Martinez Salinas Lino
1839–1982	Zelaya y Ayes Ferrera Council of Ministers Ferrera Council of Ministers Chávez Council of Ministers Lindo Gómez Cabañas Bueso Aguilar Guardiola Montes Castellanos Montes Medina Inestroza Cruz Medina Arias Leiva Mejía Gómez Medina Soto Council of Ministers Bográn Leiva Vásquez P. Bonilla Sierra Arias Boquín M. Bonilla Oquelí Dávila Bertrand M. Bonilla Bertrand Aguirre Mejía Colindres Bográn López Gutiérrez Bueso Carías Andino Tosta Paz Barahona Mejía Colindres Carías Andino Gálvez Lozano Díaz Military junta Villeda Morales López Arellano Cruz Uclés López Arellano Melgar Paz García
Democratic era (since 1982)	Suazo Córdova Azcona Callejas Reina Flores Maduro Zelaya Micheletti (Disputed) Lobo Hernández Castro

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