Juan Ángel Arias Boquín [SEP] position held
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín (7 August 1859 – 29 April 1927) was President of Honduras 1 February - 13 April 1903.
He was Member of the "Partido Liberal de Honduras".
Manuel Bonilla finished first in the elections of 1902 but the Honduran Congress didn't gave him presidency by law, because Manuel Bonilla was an outlaw. Juan Ángel Arias Boquín finished second in the elections of 1902, but when President Terencio Sierra refused to give up the office, the Honduran Congress voted Arias
the National Party. Another was Dr. Juan Ángel Arias of the Liberal Party.
General Manuel Bonilla won the election with 28,550 votes vs 25,118 for Doctor Juan Ángel Arias Boquín and 4,857 for Doctor Marco Aurelio Soto. As writer and politician said, voters did not give an absolute majority to any of the contenders as required by the constitution. Therefore, the National Congress had to choose the president and designated Juan Ángel Arias Boquín and General Máximo Betancourt Rosales as vice-president. Arias and Rosales took charge of the government on