Alberto Fermín Zubiría

Alberto Fermín Zubiría Urtiague (born October 9, 1901 in Montevideo , † October 4, 1971 ibid) was a Uruguayan politician .

Zubiría belonged to the Partido Colorado . He studied law at the law faculty of the Universidad de la República and graduated successfully in 1926. The first step in his political career, which began in 1920, was membership in the Asamblea Representativa between 1923 and 1925. From February 15, 1932, until the coup d'état in 1933 and the resulting dissolution of the House of Representatives on March 31, he was a member of the Department Montevideo in the same. From February 15, 1943 to March 1, 1947 he was again a member of the Cámara de Representantes . Subsequently, during the tenure of President Tomás Berreta between 1947 and 1948, he took over the Ministry of Industry and Labor, and then served as Minister of the Interior from 1948 to 1950. In the early 1950s he was then President of the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay . He has been a member of the National Council since his election in 1954. On March 1, 1956, he succeeded Luis Batlle Berres in the chairmanship of the Consejo Nacional de Gobierno and was thus President of the Republic at that time. He was replaced on March 1, 1957 by Arturo Lezama in this position. In 1966 he was elected to the Uruguayan Senate, but he did not take up this post as a result of his retirement.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Current biography yearbook, Volume 17", HW Wilson Company
2. ↑ List of Uruguayan parliamentarians since 1830 ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, Spanish )
3. ^ "Informe Anual", Cámara Nacional de Comercio (Uruguay)
4. ↑ Data on rulers.org
5. ↑ "Por mi honor: vida de los presidentes uruguayos", p.17 by Alejandro Giménez Rodríguez

predecessor	Office	successor
Luis Batlle Berres	President of Uruguay March 1, 1956–1. March 1957	Arturo Lezama