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Manuel Argüello Mora

Died in 1902

Manuel Argüello Mora was born in 1834 in San José. Orphaned young, he was raised by his uncle Juan Rafael Mora Porras, president of Costa Rica. Trained at the University of Santo Tomás, he qualified as a lawyer in Guatemala in 1857. In 1859 he followed his uncle into exile and returned with him in 1860, during the attempt to retake power in which the president was shot. He was then a magistrate, minister and rector of that same university. He died in San José in 1902.

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