Tomás Monje [SEP] date of death
Tomás Monje
Tomás Monje Gutierréz (21 December 1884 – 1 July 1954) was 48th President of Bolivia between August 1946 and March 1947.
Background and earlier career.
Born in Coroico, department of La Paz, he was a noted intellectual and judge. He served as deputy minister of agriculture 1926-27, after which he was appointed minister of the government and justice. From 1930 until 1936 he was Attorney general.
President of Bolivia.
In his capacity as head of the Bolivian Supreme Court,
President Gualberto Villarroel (1943–46). Upon the death of Villarroel, the alliance of forces that had toppled him needed a reliable and impartial caretaker (given the mood of the citizenry, which had just shown what it was capable of during the revolt) to guide the country to elections. They settled on the head of the La Paz Court of Appeals, Tomás Monje Gutiérrez, who was ill at the time. Thus, Guillén filled in for him for fewer than four weeks, whereupon Monje was sworn-in as President