Félix Paiva

President of Paraguay

21 February 1877 Caazapá, Paraguay

2 November 1965(1965-11-02) (88) Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

15 August 1937 – 15 August 1939

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (August 2018) Click for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,494 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at ]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated page}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Félix Paiva (21 February 1877, Caazapá, Caazapá Department – 2 November 1965, Colonia del Sacramento) was Paraguayan politician from the Liberal Party. He studied law and worked as university teacher, rector of the University and president of the Supreme Court. In his political career he was a minister in many occasions, Vice President of Paraguay 1920–1921, and also President of Paraguay from 15 August 1937 to 15 August 1939. He became president after the overthrow of Rafael Franco. In his term he restored the political constitution of 1870. On 10 October 1938, the Congress of Paraguay confirmed Paiva as provisional president. He signed a peace agreement with Bolivia in 1938, which concluded the Chaco War.