Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez y Caviedes[1] (18 April 1865 – 17 November 1933) was an Ecuadorian politician who was the President of Ecuador from 1 September 1901 to 31 August 1905 and again from 1 September 1912 to 31 August 1916.
He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez y Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy. He married María Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them, Galo Plaza, was also president of Ecuador.[2] He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900. He was Minister of Finance in 1911.
