Luis María Drago | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 11 August 1902 – 18 July 1903 |
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President | Julio Argentino Roca |
Preceded by | Joaquín V. González |
Succeeded by | Joaquín V. González |
Personal details | |
Born |
Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
6 May 1859
Died | 9 June 1921 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
(aged 62)
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Luis María Drago (May 6, 1859Argentine politician.
- June 9, 1921 ) was anBorn into a distinguished Argentine family in Buenos Aires, Drago began his career as a newspaper editor. Later, he served as a minister of foreign affairs (1902). At that time, when the UK, Germany, and Italy were seeking to collect the public debt of Venezuela by force, he wrote to the Argentine minister in Washington setting forth his doctrine, commonly known as the Drago Doctrine.