Eliodoro Camacho (1831–1899) was a noted

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, party leader, and presidential candidate. The

Eliodoro Camacho Province Eliodoro Camacho is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated at Lake Titicaca. Its seat is Puerto Acosta. Camacho Province is situated in the western region of the La Paz Department bordered to the north by the Muñecas Province, t ...

is named after him. Camacho was born in

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, Department of La Paz, but grew up in Cochabamba. He founded the Liberal Party, which espoused freedom of religion, a stricter separation between church and state, legal acceptance of civil marriages and divorce, and strict adherence to democratic procedures. Camacho also participated as an officer in the 1879-80 War of the Pacific against

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, and later played a key role in the 1880 Constitutional Convention. Following the establishment of the new post-war order (which he himself authored, along with

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leader

Aniceto Arce Aniceto Arce Ruiz de Mendoza (15 April 1824, in Tarija – 14 August 1906) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Bolivia from 1888 to 1892. He also served as the fourth vice president of Bolivia from 1880 to ...

), he led the opposition against the Conservatives. He ran for president in 1884, 1888, and 1892. Following three consecutive electoral defeats (ameliorated somewhat by the knowledge that they almost certainly were the result of various degrees of fraud), Camacho resigned the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1894 to

José Manuel Pando José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares (27 December 1849 – 17 June 1917) was a Bolivian soldier, politician and explorer. He was also the 25th President of Bolivia from 1899 to 1904. During his government, the Acre War (1899-1903) began, in wh ...

. Under Pando, the Liberals would go on to gain power in 1899 and dominate Bolivian politics until 1920, as well as to remain one of the most important parties in the country until nearly the mid 20th century. He died in 1899.

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* 1831 births 1899 deaths Liberal Party (Bolivia) politicians {{Bolivia-politician-stub