Luis Cordero Crespo (6 April 1833-30 January 1912) was President of Ecuador from 1 July 1892 to 16 April 1895, succeeding Antonio Flores Jijon and preceding Vicente Lucio Salazar.
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Luis Cordero Crespo was born in Deleg, Ecuador in 1833, and he practiced law before becoming a poet. A liberal-progressive Catholic, he helped overthrow Ignacio de Veintemilla's government in 1883 and became President of the Senate in 1885. He served as President from 1892 to 1895, when he was forced to resign over a scandal involving the Ecuadorian ambassador to Chile's sale of arms to Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War. All charges against him were dropped in 1898, and he died in 1912.