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Severo Fernández
Severo Fernández Alonso Caballero (15 August 1849 in Sucre – 12 August 1925) was President of Bolivia from 1896 to 1899. He is best remembered as the last president of the 15-year period of Conservative Party hegemony (1884–99).
Political career.
Political career Presidency.
Like his predecessor, Mariano Baptista, Fernández was a more conciliatory and legalist breed of Conservative. He presided over the collapse of Conservative Party rule and its loss of power in the aftermath of the 1899 Civil War against the Liberal Party
as Congressional Representative from Chuquisaca during the administration of Severo Fernández (1896–99) and was the nucleus around which coalesced the increasingly more vocal and seditious efforts of the Liberal Party to topple the Conservatives from power.
Civil War finally erupted in 1899, under the guise of a regional dispute regarding whether Sucre should continue to be the capital of the country or the latter should be moved to La Paz. At this point, Pando's Liberals rallied around the movement to declare La Paz the capital and gathered considerable popular support behind the