José Bustamante y Rivero
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José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (1968)
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| 51st President of the Republic of Peru | |
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In office July 28, 1945 – October 29, 1948 |
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| Preceded by | Manuel Prado |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Odría |
| President of the International Court of Justice | |
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In office 1967–1970 |
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15 January 1894 Arequipa, Peru 
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| Died | 11 January 1989 (aged 94) Lima, Peru
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| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Political party | Frente Democrático Nacional |
| Spouse(s) | María Jesús Rivera |
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (January 15, 1894 – January 11, 1989) was a lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 51st President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1967 to 1970.
José Bustamante was born in Arequipa. His parents were Manuel Bustamante y Barreda, a lawyer and district attorney in Arequipa, and Victoria de Rivero y Romero. José married María Jesús Rivera in 1923. He received his early education in Arequipa at Colegio San José and obtained his Law Degree from the Universidad Nacional San Agustín de Arequipa in his native city and his Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad in Cusco. After a distinguished career as a professor and legal scholar, Bustamante became interested in politics.
Bustamante reached political maturity as the author of the manifesto which launched the 1930 coup that ousted President Augusto B. Leguía. He soon earned the trust of Leguía's successor, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, and began his new career in 1934 by serving as a diplomat, representing Peru as Peruvian Minister to Bolivia (1934-1938, 1942-1945) and Uruguay (1939-1942).
He ran for President in 1945 as a candidate for the Frente Democrático Nacional, a moderate, left-of-center party that aligned itself with Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre's APRA and the Peruvian Communist Party. Opposing him was the Legión Patriótica Independiente candidate, Gen. Eloy G. Ureta. Bustamante comfortably won the relatively honest election.
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