José Mora Otero

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José Antonio Mora Otero (born November 22, 1897 in Montevideo , † January 26, 1975 ibid) was a Uruguayan diplomat , lawyer and politician .

Life

José Mora Otero studied law and social sciences after attending school and graduated from both courses in 1925 with a doctorate .

Immediately afterwards he entered the diplomatic service and was initially legation secretary in the foreign ministry before he was transferred to the embassies in Spain and Portugal as first class counselor in 1926 . He was then first class councilor at the Embassy in Brazil in 1928 and then in 1930 at the Embassy in the United States .

After his return to Uruguay in 1931 he was appointed head of the Department of International Organizations and International Law in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and soon gained a reputation as an expert in the field of international conferences and associations. At the trade conference in Buenos Aires in 1935 he was secretary general of the Uruguayan delegation as well as at the 1936 Inter-American Peace Conference also held in Buenos Aires .

In 1938 he became Deputy Representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and in this capacity he was also an advisor to the Pan-American Foreign Ministers' Conferences in Panama City in 1939 , in Havana in 1940 and in Buenos Aires in 1942. On May 21, 1942 he was appointed Uruguayan ambassador to Bolivia . Most recently Mora Otero was ambassador to the USA and to the OAS from 1948 to 1956 , and he presided over its council between 1954 and 1955.

Subsequently, on January 16, 1956, he was elected, initially for two years as interim and then for a ten-year term of office as third General Secretary of the OAS as the successor to the acting General Secretary Wilhelm Manger and held this office until May 18, 1967. Successor as General Secretary of the OAS became Galo Plaza Lasso .

Later he was from April 1, 1971 to June 2, 1972 still Foreign Minister of Uruguay during the term of office of Presidents Jorge Pacheco Areco and Juan María Bordaberry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Personalidades de la cultura en el Uruguay: humanistas y científicos", p.172 by Walter Rela
  2. ^ "Encyclopedia of the inter-American system", p.343 by G. Pope Atkins
personal data
SURNAME Mora Otero, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mora Otero, José Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan politician, diplomat and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1975
Place of death Montevideo