Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias (1874 – 1951) was a Peruvian soldier and politician who briefly occupied the Presidency of Peru between March 1 and March 5, 1931.

He organized one of the various movements that caused the fall of president Augusto B. Leguía

Augusto B. Leguía

Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo was a Peruvian politician who twice occupied the Presidency of Peru, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.-Early life:...

. After General Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was a high-ranking Peruvian army officer and President of Peru from 1931 to 1933. On August 22, 1930, as a lieutenant-colonel, he overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto B...

 was named provisional president, Elías was not satisfied and soon moved against him. In March 1931, Sánchez Cerro left the presidency to his vice president Olguín, who was soon deposed and Elías occupied the presidency. He himself, however, was deposed by Gustavo Jiménez

Gustavo Jiménez

Gustavo Jiménez was a Peruvian colonel who served as President of Peru for six days in 1931.Jiménez organised one of several uprisings that led to the fall of the government of Augusto B. Leguía...

only four days later. He remained in the new government as President of the Supreme Court until 1932.