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Vicente Mejía Colindres

Vicente Mejía Colindres

President of Honduras in 1919, from 1929 to 1933

Vicente Mejía Colindres (6 April 1878[1] – 24 August 1966) was President of Honduras between 16 September and 5 October 1919; and again between 1 February 1929 and 16 November 1932.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mejía and the second or maternal family name is Colindres.
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A successful beginning to his presidency was dampened by the effects of the 1929 economic depression.[2] He had been democratically elected in the 1928 elections that saw an almost unprecedented peaceful transfer of power from the incumbent to an opposition party,[2] and the same was to occur in 1932 when Tiburcio Carías Andino won and succeeded him. He died on 24 August 1966 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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  1. [1]
    Who's Who in Latin America: Part II, Central America and Panama. Stanford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8047-0712-1.
  2. [2]
    Haggerty, Richard & Millet, Richard (1993). "Chapter 1 – Historical Setting: Banana Boats and Gunboats: The rise of United States Influence: The Restoration of Order, 1925–31". In Merrill, Tim (ed.). A Country Study: Honduras. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 58–59.
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