Daniel Salamanca (8 July 1869-17 July 1935) was President of Bolivia from 5 March 1931 to 1 December 1934, succeeding Carlos Blanco Galindo and preceding Jose Luis Tejada Sorzano.
Biography[]
Daniel Salamanca was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1869, and he practiced law before being elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1899. He served as Jose Manuel Pando's Finance Minister before splitting with the Liberal Party of Bolivia and cofounding the Republican Party of Bolivia. He later founded the Genuine Republican Party in opposition to Bautista Saavedra's personalist rule, and he was elected President in 1930 as a Genuine Republican-Liberal compromise candidate. He immediately introduced unpopular austerity measures and clamped down on political opposition to his government, and, to distract the public from his unpopularity, he triggered the Chaco War with Paraguay. In 1934, he was deposed by the military for his poor management of the war, and he died of stomach cancer a year later and was blamed for the war's outcome.