Luis Cordero Crespo

Luis Benjamín Cordero y Crespo
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President of Ecuador
In office July 1, 1892 – April 16, 1895
Preceded by	Antonio Flores Jijón
Succeeded by	Vicente Lucio Salazar
Personal details
Born	(1833-04-06)April 6, 1833 Ecuador
Died
Nationality	Ecuadorian
Political party	Progresistas

Luis Benjamín Cordero y Crespo (6 April 1833 – 30 January 1912) was President of Ecuador 1 July 1892 to 16 April 1895. His parents were Gregorio Cordero and Josefa Crespo. He was a member of the Progresistas, a liberal Catholic political party, and was a member of the provisional governing junta which led the Progresistas to power in 1883.

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Luis Cordero Crespo on a 2014 stamp of Ecuador

Luis Cordero wrote poems in Spanish and Kichwa and published the first Kichwa-Spanish-Kichwa dictionary in Ecuador in 1892.

Works

• Dos cantos a la Raza Latina
• Elogio de Malo y Solano
• Poesías Jocosas
• Poesías Serias
• El Rimini llacta y el Cuchiquillca
• El Adios
• Luis Cordero (1892): Quichua Shimiyuc Panca: Quichua-Castilla, Castilla-Quichua = Diccionario Quichua Quichua-Castellano, Castellano-Quichua. Coleccion Kashcanchicracmi, 1, 427 pankakuna, 4th edition, January 1989, ISBN 9978-84-042-7

External links

• Official Website of the Ecuadorian Government about the country President's History
• ¡Rinimi, Llacta! – Poems of Luis Cordero Crespo in Quichua, with Spanish translation

Political offices
Preceded by Antonio Flores	President of Ecuador 1892–1895	Succeeded by Vicente Lucio Salazar