Justiniano Borgoño

Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda was a Peruvian brigadier general and politician who served as the President of Peru, an office he held for four months in 1894. The son of a brigadier general in the Peruvian Army, Borgoño left behind agricultural administration to join the Army following the outbreak of the Peruvian Civil War of 1856-1858. He returned to military service nearly twenty years later to serve in the War of the Pacific, during which he survived a leg wound and being taken as a prisoner of war for three months.