Jesús Jiménez Zamora

{{Short description|President of Costa Rica (1863–1866; 1868–1870)}}

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| honorific-prefix =

| name = Jesús Jiménez

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| image = Jesús Jiménez Zamora.JPG

| office = 4th President of Costa Rica

| term_start = {{start date|1863|05|08}}

| term_end = {{end date|1866|05|08}}

| predecessor = José María Montealegre Fernández

| successor = José María Castro Madriz

| office1 = 6th President of Costa Rica

| term_start1 = {{start date|1868|11|01}}

| term_end1 = {{end date|1870|04|27}}

| predecessor1 = José María Castro Madriz

| successor1 = Bruno Carranza

| birth_date = {{birth date|1823|06|18}}

| birth_place = Cartago, Costa Rica

| death_date = {{death date and age|1897|02|12|1823|06|18}}

| death_place = Cartago, Costa Rica

| birth_name = Jesús María Ciriaco Jiménez Zamora

| children = Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno

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Jesús María Ciriaco Jiménez Zamora (June 18, 1823 – February 12, 1897) was President of Costa Rica on two occasions: 1863 to 1866, and 1868 to 1870.[http://www.tse.go.cr/pdf/ifed/PresidentesCR-Cuadros.pdf El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica]

He was popularly elected in 1863, but dissolved Congress two months into his term of office. During his presidency he granted asylum to former Salvadoran President Gen. Gerardo Barrios, as a result of which the other four Central American governments broke off diplomatic relations with Costa Rica.

He passed on the presidency democratically to José María Castro Madriz at the end of his mandate in 1866, only to overthrow him in a coup d'état two years later and assume the office of president for a second time. This second mandate, in turn, came to an end in a coup on 27 April 1870.

Jesús Jiménez was the father of three-time President Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno.