Francisco José Guerrero

Salvadoran politician

Francisco José Guerrero Cienfuegos

Vice President of El Salvador
In office 25 January 1962 – 1 July 1962
President	Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea
Preceded by	Humberto Costa
Succeeded by	Francisco Roberto Lima
President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
In office 1 July 1962 – 1968
Preceded by	Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea
Succeeded by	Juan Gregorio Guardado

Personal details
Born	14 May 1925 San Salvador
Died	28 November 1989 (aged 64)
Political party	National Conciliation Party
Education	Lawyer

Francisco José Guerrero Cienfuegos was a politician and lawyer from El Salvador who served as Vice President of El Salvador and President of the Legislative Assembly. He had a leadership position in National Conciliation Party (PCN).^[1]

Guerrero was born on 14 May 1925 in San Salvador.^[1] He graduated from the faculty of jurisprudence and social sciences of the University of El Salvador in December 1953. He worked as a lawyer.^[1]

Guerrero was a founding member of the National Conciliation Party, of which he was secretary general from December 1962 to October 1967. In 1962, he acted as vice president of the Constituent Assembly.^[1] He was Vice President of El Salvador in the provisional government of Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea from January 1962 to July 1962.

Guerrero was President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 1962 to 1968. He was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1967 and served until 1972. Years later, he was appointed as the president of the Supreme Court of Justice.^[1]

Guerrero was minister in the presidency in the cabinet of Álvaro Magaña in 1982.^[2] He was the presidential candidate for the PCN for the 1984 elections.^[3]^[1] On 28 November 1989 he was shot down by a guerrilla while he was driving his vehicle in San Salvador.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Historia del Órgano Legislativo de la República de El Salvador 1824–2006: 1936–2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-06.
^ Artiga-González, Álvaro. El Sistema Politíco Salvadoreño. ISBN 978-99923-55-56-5.
^ Division, Library of Congress Federal Research (1990). "El Salvador: A Country Study". Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.