Rufino_Torrico

José Rufino Torrico de Mendiburu (Lima; 1833 — October 14, 1920) was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as Mayor of Lima three times: in 1880–1881, 1883–1884 and 1895. He also served in the Peruvian Army, fighting in the Battle of La Palma that ended the Liberal Revolution of 1854 and reaching the rank of colonel before his retirement in 1872.
In January 1881, his management helped to partially stop the violence and looting of Lima by soldiers retreating from the Battle of Miraflores and he was the highest Peruvian authority at the time of the entry of Chilean troops into the Peruvian capital. After the War of the Pacific, he joined the Constitutional Party of Andrés Avelino Cáceres, whom he served as Minister of War and Navy (1886–87), and of Government and Police (1894–95). He was also a senator in the Congress of the Republic. In 1895, immediately after the civil war between Caceristas and Pierolistas, he again took charge of the government of Lima. In his memory, an important strip or artery of the historic centre of Lima bears his name.