Francisco Garcia Calderon (2 April 1834-21 September 1905) was President of Peru from 12 March to 28 September 1881, succeeding Nicolas de Pierola and preceding Lizardo Montero Flores.
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Francisco Garcia Calderon was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1834, and he worked as a philosophy and mathematics professor and as a lawyer before serving as Finance Minister from 1868 to 1869 and as President of the Senate from 886 to 1887. He briefly served as provisional president in 1881 during the War of the Pacific, making peace with Chile. He went on to become a distinguished academic, and he died in 1905.