Clemente Yerovi
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Clemente Yerovi (August 10, 1904 - July 19, 1981) was a politician and the interim president of Ecuador from March 30, 1966, to November 16, 1966.
Yerovi was born on August 10, 1904 in Barcelona, Spain, where his parents Clemente Yerovi Matheus and María Indaburu Seminario lived temporarily. He studied at Vicente Rocafuerte High School in Guayaquil, and then at San Gabriel High School in Quito. He married Victoria Gómez Icaza and had four children. He had many links to agriculture on the coast of the country, where he acquired a farm, that split in parts.
In 1948 he was economy minister of Galo Plaza's government, and then senator for agriculture.
Yerovi died in Guayaquil, Ecuador on July 19, 1981.
| Preceded by Ramón Castro Jijón |
President of Ecuador 1966 |
Succeeded by Otto Arosemena |
