Bautista Saavedra (30 August 1870-1 May 1939) was President of Bolivia from 13 July 1920 to 3 September 1925, succeeding Jose Gutierrez Guerra and preceding Felipe Segundo Guzman.
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Bautista Saavedra Mallea was born in Sorata, Bolivia in 1870, and he worked as a lawyer before becoming involved with Liberal and then Republican politics. In 1920, he led a coup against Liberal president Jose Gutierrez Guerra, but his term was just as turbulent, as a large fraction of his allies formed the Genuine Republican Party in opposition to Saavedra's personalist governing style. Saavedra exiled most of the Genuine party's top leaders and used extra-constitutional means to retain power, but he was forced to resign in 1925 due to protests against his attempts to manipulate the election. He was exiled by Hernando Siles, initially his ally, and he died in Chile in 1939.