Luis Batlle Berres

Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Batlle and the second or maternal family name is Berres.
Luis Batlle
Luis Batlle Berres
President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
In office
1 March 1955 – 1 March 1956
Preceded byAndrés Martínez Trueba
Succeeded byAlberto Fermín Zubiría
30th President of Uruguay
In office
2 August 1947 – 1 March 1951
Vice PresidentAlfeo Brum
Preceded byTomás Berreta
Succeeded byAndrés Martínez Trueba
4th Vice President of Uruguay
In office
1 March 1947 – 2 August 1947
PresidentTomás Berreta
Preceded byAlberto Guani
Succeeded byAlfeo Brum
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1943–1945
Preceded byEuclides Sosa Aguiar
Succeeded byJuan Francisco Guichón
Personal details
Born26 November 1897
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died15 July 1964 (aged 66)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Political partyColorado Party
Spouse(s)Matilde Ibáñez Tálice
RelationsJosé Batlle y Ordóñez (uncle)
César Batlle Pacheco (cousin)
Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco (cousin)
ChildrenJorge Luis
Luis César
Matilde Linda
Alma materUniversity of the Republic
OccupationJournalist
Politician
ProfessionLawyer

Background

Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was selected — in hindsight, with far-reaching effect — to serve as Vice Presidential running-mate for Luis Tomás Berreta.

Vice President of Uruguay

He served as Vice President of Uruguay in 1947, succeeding Alberto Guani and held this office upon the death of President Berreta.

Historical note

Batlle Berres was the fourth person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay. The office dates from 1934, when Alfredo Navarro became Uruguay's first Vice President. He served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay from 1943 to 1945.[1]

President of Uruguay (1st period of office)

He was President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951, being succeeded in the office by Andrés Martínez Trueba.

Within the Colorado Party, he is now widely acknowledged for being the founder of the political branch known as Neo-Batllism. In this first period of Presidential office, the Vice President of Uruguay was Alfeo Brum.

President of Uruguay (2nd period of office)

Batlle Berres was President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay from 1955 to 1956. Batlle thus both preceded and succeeded Andrés Martínez Trueba as President.

Background

The great great grandson of Catalan settlers from Sitges, Spain, he was the son of another political figure, Luis Batlle y Ordóñez, brother of ex president José Batlle. His mother, Petrona Berres, was of Irish descent and died when he was still a small child. Then, his father remarried but died soon after, in 1908. As a result, he went to live with his uncle, José Batlle y Ordóñez, the three-time President of Uruguay, and his cousins César, Rafael and Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco on the Piedras Blancas estate in the suburbs of Montevideo.[2]

In 1927, he married Matilde Ibáñez Tálice, with whom he had three children: the also ex president Jorge Batlle, concert pianist Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle, the latter born in Argentina.

He was a member of the Colorado Party.

Bibliography
  • Sanguinetti, Julio María (2018). Luis Batlle Berres. El Uruguay del optimismo. Montevideo: Taurus.

See also

References
  1. PRESIDENCIA DE LA ASAMBLEA GENERAL Y DEL SENADO PRESIDENCIA DE LA CAMARA DE REPRESENTANTES (29 October 2013). "Parlamentarios Uruguayos 1830-2005" (PDF). www.parlamento.gub.uy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013.
  2. "'Luisito' Batlle Berres". Correo de los Viernes. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2017.


Political offices
Preceded by
Alberto Guani		 Vice President of Uruguay
1947		 Succeeded by
Alfeo Brum
Preceded by
Luis Tomás Berreta		 President of Uruguay
1947–1951		 Succeeded by
Andrés Martínez Trueba
Preceded by
Andrés Martínez Trueba		 President of the National Council
of Government of Uruguay
1955–1956		 Succeeded by
Alberto Zubiría


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