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José Figueres Ferrer
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'''José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer''' ([[25 September]] [[1906]]-[[8 June]] [[1990]]), served as [[President]] of [[Costa Rica]] on three occasions: 
[[1948]]&ndash;[[1949]], [[1953]]&ndash;[[1958]], and [[1970]]&ndash;[[1974]].   

During his first term in office, he abolished the country's [[Military of Costa Rica|army]], nationalized its banking sector, and granted women the right to vote.

==Early life==
Figueres was born Sept. 25, 1906 in
 San Ramon, Costa Rica. The locations are significant, according to his best biographer, because his parents came from a world of wide ambition that most Costa Ricans envied, and he was born in a nation that put a high value on his impeccable Spanish background. Figueres was the eldest of the four children of a Spanish Catalan doctor and his wife, a teacher, who had recently immigrated from Spain to [[San Ramon]] in west-central Costa Rica.   

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