Jose Bustamante y Rivero
Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero was a lawyer, writer, politician, diplomat, President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1967 to 1969.
Bustamante y Rivero was born in Arequipa. His parents were Manuel Bustamante y Barreda, lawyer, district attorney in Arequipa, and Victoria de Rivero y Romero. Jose Luis married Maria Jesus Rivera in 1923. He received his early education in Arequipa and his Law Degree from the Universidad Nacional San Agustin de Arequipa and his Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad in Cusco. After a distinguished career as a teacher and legal scholar, Bustamante y Rivero became interested in politics.
Bustamante y Rivero reached political maturity as the author of the manifesto which launched the 1930 coup that ousted President Augusto B. Leguia. He soon earned the trust of Leguia's successor, Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro, and began his new career in 1934 by serving as a diplomat, representing Peru as Peruvian Minister to Uruguay, Bolivia and various other countries in the Americas.
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