Francisco Arizaga Luque (6 February 1900-22 October 1964) was President of Ecuador from 14 July 1925 to 10 January 1926, succeeding Luis Telmo Paz y Miño and preceding Humberto Albornoz.
Biography[]
Francisco Arizaga Luque was born in Lima, Peru in 1900, the son of an Ecuadorian exile from Eloy Alfaro's regime. He became a lawyer and a poet, and, in 1925, he was chosen as provisional President of Ecuador after a military coup against the "bankocracy." Arizaga served from 1925 to 1926, ceding power to junta chairman Humberto Albornoz.