Career
He served as Minister of Justice and Education from 1884 to 1886. First term
Lindolfo Cuestas first assumed the Presidency in crisis circumstances. On August 25, 1897 the sitting, Juan Idiarte Borda was assassinated by a gunman, Avelino Arredondo.
Within two years Lindolfo Cuestas had ceded the Presidency to José Batlle y Ordóñez on an interim basis.
Second term
He soon reassumed the office, however, and served until 1903, when he again stepped down in favour of José Batlle y Ordóñez. After relinquishing the Presidency for the second time, in 1903, the country soon slipped into civil war, the decisive battle of which was the Battle of Masoller in 1904.
Lindolfo Cuestas died in 1905.
