Background
Guardia was a member of the influential Calderón-Guardia family, born in San Jose, the son of Rafael Ángel Calderón Muñoz and Ana Maria Guardia Mora.
Guardia was a member of the influential Calderón-Guardia family, born in San Jose, the son of Rafael Ángel Calderón Muñoz and Ana Maria Guardia Mora.
From 1940 until 1944, Guardia was third Vice President of Costa Rica. He was first Vice President of Costa Rica in the following administration of Teodoro Picado Michalski, 1944-1948. Later he moved to Mexico, from whence he returned to Costa Rica in 1958.
Francisco Calderón Guardia died in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 17 July 1977.
He was again a member of the Costa Rican government as a deputy from 1958 to 1962 in the administration of Mario Echandi Jiménez.