- Luis Batlle Berres
Infobox Uruguayan politician
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name = Luis Batlle
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caption =Luis Batlle Berres
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office =President of Uruguay
term_start = 1947
term_end = 1951
term_start2 = 1955
term_end2 = 1956
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predecessor = Andrés Martínez Trueba
successor = Andrés Martínez Trueba
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birth_date = 1897
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death_date = 1964
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party = Colorado Party
spouse = Matilde Ibañez
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children =Jorge Batlle , Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle
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occupation =Journalist
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footnotes =Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (1897 - 1964) was a
Uruguayan political figure.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 LuisTomás Berreta .Vice President of Uruguay
He served as
Vice President of Uruguay in 1947, succeedingAlberto 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, whenCésar Charlone becameUruguay 's first Vice President.President of Uruguay (1st period of office)
He was
President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951.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 theVice President of Uruguay wasAlfeo Brum .President of Uruguay (2nd period of office)
Batlle Berres was
President of Uruguay again from 1955 to 1956. For this period, the office ofVice President of Uruguay , via which Batlle Berres himself had succeeded to the Presidency in his first term, was in abeyance.Background
The great great grandson of Catalan settlers from
Sitges , he was the son of another political figure, Luis Batlle y Ordóñez, brother of ex presidentJosé 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 and his cousins in a farm in the suburbs ofMontevideo .In 1927 he married Matilde Ibáñez, with whom he had three children, the also ex president
Jorge Batlle , Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle, the latter born inArgentina .He was a member of the Colorado Party.
ee also
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List of political families#Uruguay
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