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Romualdo Ricardo de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno served as President of Costa Rica on three separate occasions: 1910 to 1914, 1924 to 1928, and 1932 to 1936.
One of the most well known lawyers in Costa Rican history and a University of Santo Tomás graduate. Shortly after assuming power in 1910, the province of Cartago was hit by a powerful earthquake and was most of the city was destroyed, killing hundreds. One of his main struggles was the rebuilding of one of the biggest cities in the country. Another notable aspect of his first term was the consolidation of the country's external debt with a great part of the debt owed to France being repaid.
During his second term in office, he created the National Insurance Bank, the School of Agriculture and founded the Ministry of Health. He also began the electrification of the Pacific railway system. After his second term he stepped away from the political scene for four years.
He again was elected President in 1932. During his last term in office he concentrated on the country's infrastructure and educational system. He built several large buildings for school housing, improved and build new roads throughout the country and constructed an aqueduct system that started in the central valley and flowed into the Pacific Ocean.
He died in San José in 1945.
His father was two-time president Jesús Jiménez Zamora.