Juan Bautista Pérez

Infobox_President | name=Juan Bautista Pérez


order=41st President of Venezuela
term_start=May 30, 1929
term_end=June 13, 1931

predecessor=Juan Vicente Gómez
successor=Juan Vicente Gómez
birth_date=birth date|1869|12|20|mf=y
birth_place=Caracas, Venezuela
death_date=death date and age|1952|5|7|1869|12|20|mf=y
death_place= Caracas, Venezuela
party=


alma_mater=Central University of Venezuela|

Juan Bautista Pérez was born in Caracas, December 20, 1869, and died in Caracas, May 7, 1952, Lawyer, magistrate and president of the Republic (1929-1931). Graduating as a lawyer in the Central University of Venezuela near 1895, practised his profession in "Villa de Cura", Aragua state. In 1900, returned to Caracas, where he entered in the magistrature until reaching the Presidency of the Federal Court and Abrogation (1929).

When Gómez was finalizing his presidential period (1922-1929), had decided to retire to Maracay from where he would maintain control of the state as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Nevertheless, Congress reelected Gómez, in April 19 of 1929 for the period 1929-1936; a delegation of Congress went to Gómez's estate "El Trompillo" to ask to him to accept the presidency for another period. In light of the legislators' insistence, Gómez decided to propose the candidacy of Juan Bautista Pérez. Pérez was ordered to the presidency from April 19, as president of the Federal Court. Finally, in May 30, 1929, Perez occupied the presidency of the Republic. One of the first measures that Perez made was to sign an executive decree in October 11, 1929, by means of which expelled from the country the bishop of Valencia and restoring monsignor Montes de Oca, which caused problems with the Venezuelan ecclesiastical hierarchy and motivated the diplomatic intervention of Apostolic Nuncio. Also, finally completed the full payment of the country's external debt in 1930.

In June of 1931, with the problems with the Church still pending, the National Congress made Pérez responsible for the strong depression that afflicted the economy (reflected by the world-wide great economic crisis initiated in 1929) and in that same opportunity, as a result of the circulation of the first manifesto of the Communist Party of Venezuela in May 1, 1931, was accused by Parliament of allowing the entry of Communist ideas into the country. Nevertheless, both the problem with the church as well as the accusations formulated by Congress were partly a product of political maneuvers designed to replace the weak figure of Juan Bautista Pérez by a representative of the new Andean generations, of which one was general "Jose Maria García Velasco". Before the pressures Perez was forced to resign in June 13, 1931, but in spite of the presidential aspirations of some figures, Gómez reelected himself with greater constitutional powers for the period of 1931-1938. Juan Bautista Pérez, on the other hand, was named minister of Venezuela in Spain and Portugal (1931-1933), soon returns to Venezuela, but as the result of the events of February 14, 1936, his family was expelled, and his house was sacked. Pérez lived in Barcelona (Spain) until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (July, 1936), when was transferred to Paris. In 1939 he returned to Venezuela. his property, confiscated after October 18, 1945, was restituted in 1949.

See also

*Venezuela
*Presidents of Venezuela