Jesús Jiménez Zamora

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Jesús Jiménez Zamora President of Costa Rica First term: 8 May 1863 to 8 May 1866 – Preceded by:  José María Montealegre – Succeeded by:  José María Castro Madriz (2nd presidential term) Second term: 1 November 1868 to 27 April 1870 – Preceded by:  José María Castro Madriz (2nd presidential term) – Succeeded by:  Bruno Carranza Ramírez Date of birth: 18 June 1823 Place of birth: Cartago Date of death: 12 February 1897 Place of death: Cartago Party:

Jesús María Ciriaco Jiménez Zamora was President of Costa Rica on two occasions: 1863 to 1866, and 1868 to 1870.

He was popularly elected in 1863, but dissolved Congress two months into his term of office. During his presidency he granted asylum to former Salvadoran President Gen. Gerardo Barrios, as a result of which the other four Central American governments broke off diplomatic relations with Costa Rica.

He passed on the presidency democratically to José María Castro Madriz at the end of his mandate in 1866, only to overthrow him in a coup d'état two years later and assume the office of president for a second time. This second mandate, in turn, came to an end in a coup on 27 April 1870.

Jesús Jiménez Zamora was the father of three-time President Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno.