Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro
Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro was a a high-ranking Peruvian army officer and President of Peru from 1931 to 1933. On August 22, 1930, as a lieutenant-colonel, he overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguia after a coup d'etat in Arequipa.
In October 1932, the military Junta permitted a national election. Luis Sanchez was allowed to participate and won the elections by a majority of 19,745 votes. President Luis M. Sanchez was inaugurated at Peru's Government Palace as the forty-fifth President of Peru.
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