Jose Ballivian Segurola (5 May 1805-6 October 1852) was President of Bolivia from 27 September 1841 to 23 December 1847, succeeding Mariano Enrique Calvo and preceding Eusebio Guilarte.
Biography[]
Jose Ballivian was born in La Paz, Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata in 1805 to wealthy parents. He served in the royalist army until 1822, when he defected to the patriots and became a supporter of Andres de Santa Cruz's authoritarian regime during the 1830s. He distinguished himself as Minister of War in 1839 and as a general at the Battle of Ingavi in 1841, defeating a Peruvian invasion and executing their president Agustin Gamarra. Afterwards, he took power as provisional President from 1841 to 1847, and he appointed his supporters to military commands to ward off a rebellion by Jose Miguel de Velasco's supporters. He was overthrown by Manuel Belzu's rebellion in 1847 and went inot exile in Chile and Rio de Janeiro, where he died in 1852. His son Adolfo Ballivian later became president in 1873.