- Alfeo Brum
Alfeo Brum (1898-1972) was an
Uruguay an politician and lawyer. He was Vice-President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951 and 1951 to 1955, noted for being the longest consecutively serving Vice-President in Uruguay's history.Background
Alfeo Brum was born in
Salto onMarch 22 1898 . He was a younger brother of PresidentBaltasar Brum . He studied law, and became a lawyer. From his youth, he was a member of the Colorado Party.Early political career
Alfeo Brum was elected as Representative from the department of Artigas, and represented Artigas for three terms: 1923-1926, 1926-1929, and 1929-1932.
On
March 1 1933 , he became a Senator. OnMarch 31 , PresidentGabriel Terra dissolved the parliament. Former President Baltasar Brum resisted Terra's coup, but when he noticed the indifference of the Uruguayan populace to the coup, he committed suicide on that very same day. His brother Alfeo was with him at the time he committed suicide, and from that moment on he was considered an opponent and an outlaw to Terra's regime. The Brum brothers were followers of the orthodox "Batllismo " faction within the Colorado Party (at the time, the followers of the ideals of PresidentJosé Batlle y Ordoñez ). He was imprisoned atIsla de las Ratas , and later was exiled.He was once again elected a Senator in the November 1946 elections, for the 1947-1951 period.
Vice President of Uruguay
The death of President
Tomás Berreta , and the succession to the presidency ofLuis Batlle Berres , determined that Alfeo Brum, the first Senator of the Batllismo faction's Senate list, took over the Vice-Presidency for the rest of the period, until March 1951. In the November 1950 elections, he was the Vice-Presidential candidate ofAndrés Martínez Trueba , one of the two presidential candidates of the Batllismo faction.Martínez Trueba and the Colorado Party won the elections, and Alfeo Brum went on to serve as Vice President from 1951 to 1955.
Historical notes
i) Brum was the fifth person to hold the office of
Vice President of Uruguay . The office dates from 1934, whenCésar Charlone becameUruguay 's first Vice President.ii) Brum was the only person who served two successive terms as Vice President of Uruguay.
Post- Vice Presidency
In 1955 Brum stepped down from the Vice Presidency and the office of
Vice President of Uruguay went into abeyance, to be revived again in 1967, within Brum's lifetime.Alfeo Brum died in Montevideo on
February 25 1972 .ee also
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Politics of Uruguay
*List_of_political_families#Uruguay
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