Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco
Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco (4 March 1897 – 3 December 1954) was a Uruguayan political figure and journalist.
Background
Pacheco was born in Montevideo. He was a journalist on the newspaper El Día and a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was a son of Matilde Pacheco and long-serving President of Uruguay José Batlle y Ordóñez. Brother of Rafael and César Batlle Pacheco.
Deputy; Senator
Batlle Pacheco was elected as a Deputy in 1927. In 1931 he was elected as a Senator, and was subsequently re-elected to the Senate in 1947.
In 1950, Batlle Pacheco also stood for the nomination of the vice-presidency under César Mayo Gutiérrez, a Batllista who put himself forward as a presidential candidate that year and who promised to (as noted by one journal) “continue the work of social justice that has been the clear heritage of Batllismo” if elected president.[1]
Batlle Pacheco died in 1954, while serving as a Senator.
He also founded the Sunday supplement of "El Dia."[2]
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