Felipe S. Guzmán Net Worth

Background and career

Felipe Segundo Guzmán (17 January 1879 – 16 June 1932) was a Bolivian academic and politician who served as the 30th president of Bolivia from 1925 to 1926.

Born in La Paz, Guzmán began his career as a school teacher and university professor. He taught at the normal school of the Altiplano, where he focused on the linguistic Hispanicization of the region's indigenous Aymara and Quechua inhabitants. He studied pedagogy in Europe, and later became a professor of political economics at the Higher University of San Andrés and rector of the Technical University of Oruro.

A member of the Republican Party, Guzmán represented La Paz in the Chamber of Deputies and served as minister of instruction under Bautista Saavedra from 1922 to 1923. He was later elected to the Senate and was made president of the upper chamber. In that role and following the annulment of the May 1925 presidential election, Guzmán succeeded Saavedra as provisional president after the latter's term expired before a fresh election could be held. He oversaw the December re-do election, in which Hernando Siles won the presidency.

Siles appointed Guzmán minister of government in 1927 and minister of war from 1927 to 1928. Following the fall of Siles in 1930, Guzmán retired from politics. He died in La Paz in 1932, aged fifty-three.