Luis Cordero Crespo

Luis Benjamín Cordero y Crespo (6 April 1833 – 30 January 1912) was President of Ecuador 1 July 1892 to 16 April 1895. His parents were Gregorio Cordero and Josefa Crespo.
He was a member of the Progresistas, a liberal Catholic political party, and was a member of the provisional governing junta which led the Progresistas to power in 1883.

Luis Cordero wrote poems in Spanish and Kichwa and published the first Kichwa-Spanish-Kichwa dictionary in Ecuador.

Other websites
 Official Website of the Ecuadorian Government about the country President's History
¡Rinimi, Llacta! - Poems of Luis Cordero Crespo in Quichua, with Spanish translation 

Category:1833 births
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Category:Deaths from pneumonia
Category:Presidents of Ecuador
Category:South American poets