Background
RODRÍGUEZ, Manuel Esteban was born on December 26, 1883 in Arequipa, Peru.
RODRÍGUEZ, Manuel Esteban was born on December 26, 1883 in Arequipa, Peru.
Educated Escuela Militar Preparatoria y Naval dc Santa Sofía, 1897-1899, Escuela Militar de Chorrillos, 1900-1902. Graduate, military engineering and artillery school, Fontainebleau. France, 1910; certificate of applied electricity and aeronautics, faculty of science, University de Paris, 1926.
C.É., Escuela de Ingenieros, Lima.
Officer, civil engineer. Director, engineering service of the army, 1915-1919. Minister of public development in 3 cabinets, 1930, 1932-1933.
Inspector general of national defense, 1933. Minister of war in 8 cabinets under Presidents Sánchez Cerro and Benavides, 193132, 1933-1933S. President, council of ministers, and minister of public development.
1935-1936.; officer, El Sol del Perú, Orden de Ayacucho, Order of the Sword (Sweden). Grand cross, Saint Gregory the Great (Vatican), Jade (China), Crown of Belgium, Crown of Italy, Mérito (Chile). Commander, Légion d’Honneur (France).
Member Society de Ingenieros det Perú, Society Geográfica, Club Nacional.