Alberto lleras camargo biography definition
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Alberto lleras camargo biography definition
Alberto Lleras Camargo
20th President of Colombia
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lleras and the second or maternal family name is Camargo.
Alberto Lleras Camargo (3 July 1906 – 4 January 1990) was President of Colombia twice (1945-1946, 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.[1] He briefly attended the National University of Colombia in Bogotá to study politics, but dropped out later to pursue journalism.
Lleras Camargo served as congressman of Colombia.[2] He was also a cousin of later president Carlos Lleras Restrepo. He died in 1990 after suffering a long illness.[3]
Early Political Career and First Presidency
He attended the traditional C