Flores

Flores, JUAN JOSÉ, first president of Ecuador, was born in Venezuela in 1800, and fought with distinction through the long war of independence. He was elected president of the new republic in 1830, resigning in 1835, and was re-elected in 1839 and 1843. He died in 1864.—His son, ANTONIO, born at Quito in 1833, was minister at Washington in 1860-64, and again in 1884-88, acting also, during the latter period, as ambassador to France and (in 1887) to Great Britain and Belgium. He was president of Ecuador in 1888-92.