Mario Echandi Jiménez

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President of Costa Rica (1915-2011)

PoliticiansLived 1915 to 2011 · aged 96

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Mario José Echandi Jiménez was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who served as the 33rd President of Costa Rica from 1958 to 1962.

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Awards 3

1951Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit

Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

In their orbit 1

FatherAlberto Echandi Montero

Politicians born in the 1910s 6

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About this person

Mario José Echandi Jiménez was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who served as the 33rd President of Costa Rica from 1958 to 1962. A conservative liberal, he presided over a process of national reconciliation following the Civil War and modernized the country's drinking water system through the creation of the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers.