Monumento al filantropo Victor Larco Herrera

Victor Larco Herrera (1870 in Trujillo,

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– May 10, 1939 in Santiago de Chile) was a prominent politician, farmer and philanthropist from

. He devoted much of his life to social and cultural affairs. Since 1945, the

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was named after the philanthropist who with their property supported the first residents of the district. Larco Herrera was also mayor of Trujillo.

Biography

He was elected senator for the

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in 1904, and then successively re-elected until 1919. In 1913, he was elected mayor of Trujillo, to the city gave the building now occupied the

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. At the time of the coup that ousted then-President Guillermo Billinghurst on February 4, 1914, joined representatives who advocated for the right of succession that constitution recognizes as first vice president, and for this he had to suffer a brief incarceration. Then Larco Herrera had agricultural operations to Argentina between 1916 and 1917, encouraged by the favorable situation created by the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Larco Herrera, Victor 20th-century mayors of places in Peru People from Trujillo, Peru Mayors of Trujillo, Peru 1870 births 1939 deaths Members of the Senate of Peru