Alberto Guani

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Alberto Guani (1877-1956) was an Uruguayan jurist, diplomat and the Vice President from 1943 to 1947.

Alberto Guani was born in Montevideo in 1877. He studied law, and became a well-known lawyer specialised in International Law. He entered the diplomatic service, and served as Uruguay's Plenipotentiary Minister in Austria-Hungary and Switzerland (1911), in Belgium and the Netherlands (1913), in France (1925-1926) and in the United Kingdom (1936-1938). Additionally, he served as Uruguay's representative at the League of Nations.

In Uruguayan politics, he was a member of the Colorado Party. President Alfredo Baldomir designated him Foreign Minister, serving from 1938 to 1943. In the November 1942 elections, he was selected running-mate of Juan José de Amézaga in the ticket of the majority faction of the Colorado Party. Duly elected, he was Uruguay's Vice President from 1943 to 1947.

Alberto Guani died in Montevideo in 1956.

Preceded by: Alfredo Navarro

Vice President of Uruguay 1943–1947

Succeeded by: Luis Batlle Berres

Presidents of the League of Nations

Paul Hymans (1920-21) • Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (1921-22) • Augustin Edwards (1922-23) • Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (1923-24) • Giuseppe Motta (1924-25) • Raoul Dandurand (1925-26) • Afonso Costa (1926) • Momčilo Ninčić (1926-27) • Alberto Guani (1927-28) • Herluf Zahle (1928-29) • Jose Gustavo Guerrero (1929-30) • Nicolae Titulescu (1930-32) • Paul Hymans (1932-33) • Charles Theodore Te Water (1933-34) • Richard Johannes Sandler (1934) • Francisco Castillo Najera (1934-35) • Edvard Beneš (1935-36) • Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1936-37) • Tevfik Rustu Aras (1937) • Aga Khan III (1937-38) • Éamon de Valera (1938-39) • Carl Joachim Hambro (1939-40, 1946)