Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

President of Peru

August 12, 1889 Piura, Peru

April 30, 1933 (age 43) Lima, Peru

December 8, 1931 – April 30, 1933

Peruvian politician (1889–1933) In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Cerro. Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (August 12, 1889 – April 30, 1933) was a high-ranking Peruvian army officer who served as the 48th President of Peru, from 1931 to 1933 as well as Interim President of Peru, officially as the President of the Provisional Government Junta, from 1930 to 1931. On August 22, 1930, as a lieutenant-colonel, he overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguía after a coup d'état in Arequipa. Following Leguía's resignation, Manuel Ponce was interim president until Sánchez was chosen on August 27. The new president flew to Lima and himself served as provisional president until the military with whom he had effected the coup forced him into exile after six months in office.