 The party's candidate Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was elected president in 1910.A non-elected president member of the party was Alfredo González Flores who became the only president of Costa Rica appointed by the Congress.After electing Jiménez in three different occasions, the party also successfully nominated León Cortés Castro in 1936, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia in 1940 and Teodoro Picado Michalski in 1944 becoming a dominant party.