Nicolás de Piérola
President of Peru
1839 CE to 1913 CE
Jose Nicolás Baltasar Fernández de Piérola y Villena (known as "El Califa" ("The Caliph"); January 5, 1839 – June 23, 1913) is a Peruvian politician and finance minister who serves as the 33rd and 39th President of the Republic of Peru, from 1879 to 1881 and 1895 to 1899.
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Peru's so-called Aristocratic Republic begins with the popular "Revolution of 1895," led by the charismatic and irrepressible Jose Nicolas de Pierola (1895-99).
He overthrows the increasingly dictatorial Cáceres, who had gained the presidency again in 1894 after having placed his crony Colonel Remigio Morales Bermudez (1890-94) in power in 1890.
Pierola, an aristocratic and patriarchal figure, is fond of saying that "when the people are in danger, they come to me."
Although he had gained the intense enmity of the Civilistas in 1869 when, as minister of finance in the Balta government, he had transferred the lucrative guano consignment contract to the foreign firm of Dreyfus and Company of Paris, he now succeeds in forging an alliance with his former opponents.
This alliance begins a period known as the Aristocratic Republic (1895-1914), during which Peru will be characterized not only by relative political harmony and rapid economic growth and modernization, but also by social and political change.