Gustavo Vides

{{Short description|Salvadoran politician}}

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| name = Gustavo Vides

| image = Gustavo Vides, c. 1923–1923.png

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| caption = Vides in {{circa}} 1923–1925{{cite book|last1=Andino|first1=Manuel|last2=Andino|first2=Raúl|date=1925|title=La Obra del Gobierno del Doctor Quiñónez-Molina: (Primeros Dos Años de su Administración Pública) 1923–1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ko5nAAAAMAAJ|trans-title=The Work of the Government of Doctor Quiñónez-Molina: (The First Two Years of His Public Administration) 1923–1925|language=es|location=San Salvador, El Salvador|publisher=National Press of El Salvador|oclc=21859246|page=325}}

| office = Vice President of El Salvador

| term_start = 1 March 1927

| term_end = 1 March 1931

| president = Pío Romero Bosque

| predecessor = Pío Romero Bosque

| successor = Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

| office1 = Minister of Finance

| term_start1 = 1 March 1923

| term_end1 = 1 March 1927

| president1 = Alfonso Quiñónez Molina

| predecessor1 = Reyes Arrieta Rossi

| successor1 = Reyes Arrieta Rossi

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| birth_place = Santa Ana, El Salvador

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| party = National Democratic Party

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Gustavo Vides was a politician from El Salvador who was Vice President of El Salvador during the presidency of Pío Romero Bosque.

He was born about year 1880.{{cite web |title=British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: From 1940 through 1945. Latin America. Part III. Series D |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jxDAQAAIAAJ |publisher=University Publications of America |language=en |date=1998}} He was born in Santa Ana to an old aristocratic family. He studied engineering in the United States.{{cite web |title=British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: South America and Mexico, 1924-1927 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9umOAAAAMAAJ |publisher=University Publications of America |language=en |date=1989}}

Vides was minister of finance in the cabinet of Alfonso Quiñónez Molina from 1923 to 1927. In December 1926 he got the nomination from the National Democratic Party for vice presidency in the elections of 1927 as the running mate of Pío Romero Bosque,{{cite web |last1=Leistenschneider |first1=María |title=Gobernantes de El Salvador: biografías |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENoWAAAAYAAJ |publisher=Publicaciones del Ministerio del Interior |language=es |date=1980}} who won the election.{{cite web |title=British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: South America and Mexico, 1927-1929 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veuOAAAAMAAJ |publisher=University Publications of America |language=en |date=1989}}

Vides was Vice President of El Salvador{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Frederick |last2=Keltie |first2=Sir John Scott |last3=Renwick |first3=Isaac Parker Anderson |last4=Epstein |first4=Mortimer |last5=Steinberg |first5=Sigfrid Henry |last6=Paxton |first6=John |last7=Hunter (Librarian) |first7=Brian |last8=Turner |first8=Barry |title=The Statesman's Year-book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WE46AQAAIAAJ |publisher=St. Martin's Press |language=en |date=1930}} from 1 March 1927 to 1 March 1931.

He was considered a wealthy man who was not seen in the social circles of the capital.