Máximo Fernández Alvarado (1858–1933) was a Costa Rica

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Born in Desamparados in 1858, he graduated as a Bachelor in Philosophy and Letters at the University de Santo Tomás at fourteen years old and as a lawyer

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 in the same institution in 1881 with merit.

He occupied several important positions, among them these are Secretary of State, Deputy and President of the Constitutional Congress 1913 -1914 and 1916 - 1917. He founded the Partido Republicano

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, an ideology that combined doctrines of liberalism

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 and populism

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, and was a candidate to the presidency in Costa Rican elections of 1902, 1906 and 1913. On several occasions he was exiled for political reasons. He also published a poetic anthology.

He died in San Jose in 1933.