Juan Mora Fernández

Juan Mora Fernández (July 12, 1784 – November 16, 1854) was a Costa Rican teacher and principal and Costa Rica's first elected head of state.[1] He was considered a liberal and decided to move the capital from Cartago to Puntarenas. Juan Mora was elected as the first head of state in 1825. He is remembered for instituting land reform, and he followed a progressive course. As a consequence of his land reform structure, he inadvertently created an elite class of powerful coffee barons. Under his tenure he signed the Acta de Indepencia. The barons eventually overthrew one of his later successors, José María Alfaro Zamora.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mora and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.
Juan Mora Fernàndez
Juan Mora Fernández
Head of state of Costa Rica
In office
1824/1825–1833
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byMariano Montealegre Bustamante(1824–1825), José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado (1825–1829)
Personal details
Born12 July 1784
San José, Costa Rica
Died16 November 1854(1854-11-16) (aged 70)
Political partyLiberal

From 1850 to 1854 he was Magistrate and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica; he died shortly after he resigned.

Biography

Juan Mora Fernàdez was born on July 12, 1788, in San José, Costa Rica, to Mateo Mora Valverde and Lucia Encarnación Fernàndez. He attended his primary school in San José and studied Latin grammar and philosophy in León, Nicaragua. He also became a teacher and a principal in a primary School in Alajuela. He became secretary at the city hall at San José and participated actively for the struggle of independence and joined the Junta Superior Gebernativa between 1821 and 1824.He also became a head of Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice [2]

References
  1. Murphy, Paul (2003). Insight Costa Rica. Langenscheidt Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-88729-137-1.
  2. Diaz-Arias, David; Hurtado, Ronny Viales; Hernández, Juan José Marín (2018). Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-0242-8.


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