Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias

Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias (12 September 1874 in Pisco, Peru – 20 March 1951 in Lima, Peru) was a Peruvian soldier and politician who briefly served as the Interim President of Peru.

[1] He organized one of the various movements that caused the fall of president Augusto B. Leguía.

After General Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was named provisional president, Elías was not satisfied and soon moved against him.

He remained in the new government as President of the Supreme Court until 1932.

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