Alberto Lleras Camargo
| Alberto Lleras Camargo | |
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| 20th President of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 1958 – 7 August 1962 |
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| Preceded by | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo León Valencia Muñóz |
| 1st Secretary General of the Organization of American States | |
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In office 30 April 1948 – 1 August 1954 |
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| Succeeded by | Carlos Dávila |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia | |
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In office 12 February 1945 – 2 August 1945 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Umaña Bernal |
| Minister of Government of Colombia | |
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In office 8 October 1943 – 12 February 1945 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Rocha Alvira |
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In office 27 February 1937 – August 1938 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Lozano y Lozano |
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In office 10 October 1935 – 12 January 1937 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| 3rd Colombia Ambassador to United States | |
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In office 6 May 1943 – 8 October 1943 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Gabriel Turbay Abunader |
| Succeeded by | Gabriel Turbay Abunader |
| 11th Minister of National Education of Colombia | |
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In office 28 January 1937 – 27 February 1937 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| Succeeded by | Tulio Enrique Tascón Pérez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 July 1906 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Died | 4 January 1990 (aged 83) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Bertha Puga Martínez (1931–1990) |
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| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Alberto Lleras Camargo (3 July 1906 – 4 January 1990) was the 20th President of Colombia (1958-1962), and the 1st Secretary General of the Organization of American States (1948-1954). A journalist and liberal party politician, he also served as Minister of Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as Minister of National Education in the administrations of President Alfonso López Pumarejo.
Lleras Camargo served as congressman of Colombia. He was also a cousin of later president Carlos Lleras Restrepo.
He attended the traditional Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. In 1929, he was elected deputy assemblyman on the Bogotá city council, his first entrance into politics. The following year he became Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Colombian Liberal Party and in 1931, he was elected to the Colombian Chamber of Representatives. That same year, he became the first Liberal to preside over the Chamber in more than forty years.
After Alfonso López Pumarejo was elected President of Colombia in 1934, Lleras Camargo was named Cabinet Secretary. In 1935, he became the Minister of Government, a position he occupied until the end of López Pumarejo’s presidential term in 1938. In 1938, he founded the newspaper El Liberal, which promoted López Pumarejo’s re-election. In 1941, he returned to and once again presided over the Chamber of Representatives. When López Pumarejo was re-elected president in 1942, he once again named Lleras Camargo the Minister of Government. Aside from a brief interruption in 1943, when Lleras Camargo became the Colombian Ambassador to the United States, he occupied that position until 1944, when intense political instability disrupted López Pumarejo’s presidency. In July 1944, after López Pumarejo stepped down, Lleras Camargo fought off a coup attempt against Darío Echandía, who had been temporarily designated as president.
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