Óscar R. Benavides

Óscar R. Benavides was a Peruvian military officer and politician who served as president from 1914 to 1915 and from 1933 to 1939.

Peruvian Civil War of 1894–1895: A conflict that ended the government of Andrés Avelino Cáceres and brought Nicolás de Piérola to power. Benavides’s early military career unfolded amid Peru’s repeated struggles over political authority.
Peruvian coup d'état of 1914: A military overthrow of President Guillermo Billinghurst that brought Benavides to power. This intervention began Benavides’s first presidency.
Peruvian presidential election of 1936: An election annulled by Benavides’s government after Luis Antonio Eguiguren appeared poised to win. Its annulment showed how Benavides restricted electoral competition during his second term.
Manuel Prado Ugarteche: A Peruvian politician who served as president from 1939 to 1945 and again from 1956 to 1962. Benavides backed Prado’s 1939 election and transferred power to him.
Andrés Avelino Cáceres: A Peruvian military leader and politician who served as president in the late nineteenth century and again in 1894–1895. Cáceres’s contested return to power preceded the political generation in which Benavides rose.
Guillermo Billinghurst: A Peruvian politician and president whose government was overthrown by the military in 1914. The coup against Billinghurst created the vacancy Benavides filled.
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance: A Peruvian-founded political movement established by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in 1924. Benavides’s government outlawed APRA and suppressed its political activity.
Peruvian presidential election of 1939: An election won by Manuel Prado Ugarteche, who succeeded Benavides as president. The election marked the formal end of Benavides’s second presidency.
Nicolás de Piérola: A Peruvian politician who led the overthrow of Andrés Avelino Cáceres and served as president from 1895 to 1899. Piérola’s victory helped establish the political order Benavides later served.
Peruvian Constitution of 1933: The constitution promulgated during Benavides’s second presidency, which remained in force until 1979. It framed the constitutional order under which his second government operated.

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Augusto B. LeguíaRelated: Benavides intervened in the political crises surrounding Leguía’s two presidencies.