Alberto lleras camargo wikipedia

Alberto Lleras Camargo (b. 3 July 1906; d. 4 January 1990), president of Colombia (1945–1946 and 1958–1962). Born into a middle-class Bogotá family, Lleras Camargo briefly attended university but was quickly drawn into Liberal journalism and politics.

Elected to Congress in 1930, he became the youngest interior minister in Colombian history during the first term of Alfonso López Pumarejo (1934–1938). In López's troubled second term (1942–1945), Lleras was ambassador to the United States; he completed López's term upon the latter's resignation in July 1945, a period of severe political and labor unrest.

He served as secretary general of the Organization of American States (1948–1954) and rector of the University of the Andes in Bogotá (1954). In 1956–1957 he negotiated with exiled Conservative leader Laureano Gómez the agreements that formed the basis for the bipartisan National Front; in May 1958 he was elected president under that agreement