Juan Bautista Sacasa

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Juan Bautista Sacasa
President of Nicaragua
In office
1 January 1933 – 9 June 1936
Vice PresidentRodolfo Espinosa Ramírez
Preceded byJosé María Moncada
Succeeded byCarlos Alberto Brenes
Vice President of Nicaragua
In office
1 January 1925 – 14 March 1926
PresidentCarlos José Solórzano
Preceded byBartolomé Martínez
Succeeded byEnoc Aguado
Personal details
Born21 December 1874
León, Nicaragua
Died17 April 1946(1946-04-17) (aged 71)
Los Angeles
Political partyLiberal
SpouseMaría Sacasa Argüello Manning (1886–1981)
RelationsBenjamín Lacayo
Alma materColumbia University
ProfessionMedical doctor

Juan Bautista Sacasa (21 December 1874 in León, Nicaragua – 17 April 1946 in Los Angeles, California) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936.[1] He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice removed. He was a relative of Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa.

Born in the town of

Emiliano Chamorro, who failed to gain U.S. recognition and subsequently resigned in favor of Adolfo Díaz
. In the meantime, Sacasa fled to Mexico.

Following

Augusto Sandino
would lead a guerilla war against the Marines, who had remained in the country to enforce the agreement.

In 1932, Sacasa was elected president. He took office on January 1, 1933, the day before the scheduled departure of the Marines. At the insistence of the U.S. Ambassador, he named

Chamorro. Early in 1936, Somoza used the National Guard to purge local officials loyal to the president and replace them with his associates. On June 9,[5]
he forced Sacasa to resign, appointing a puppet president before assuming the presidency himself the following year. Afterwards, Sacasa fled into exile in the U.S., living in Los Angeles until his death ten years later.

He married María Argüello Manning, a cousin of

Leonardo Argüello
, 66th President of Nicaragua; together, they had the following children:

  • Maruca Sacasa Argüello
  • Carlos Sacasa Arguello
  • Roberto Sacasa Arguello
  • Gloria Sacasa Arguello

Juan Bautista Sacaza was the first cousin of Bertha Lacayo Sacaza. Bertha Lacayo Sacasa was married to Lisimaco Lacayo Solorzano and they had only two children Chester Lacayo Lacayo and Will Lacayo Lacayo. Will Lacayo Lacayo had four children Danilo Lacayo, Bertha Lacayo, Ligia Lacayo and Tania Lacayo.

References

  1. ^ "Gobernantes de Nicaragua". Ministerio de Educación. 9 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Juan Bautista Sacasa | president of Nicaragua".
  3. ^ a b "Nicaragua - United States Intervention, 1909-33".
  4. ^ "The Sandino Rebellion, 1927-1934".
  5. ^ "Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1936, The American Republics, Volume V - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
Political offices
Preceded by Vice President of Nicaragua
1925–1926 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Nicaragua
1933–1936 		Succeeded by
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