Luis Batlle Berres

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Luis Batlle
President of Uruguay
In office 1947 – 1951
Preceded by	Andrés Martínez Trueba
Succeeded by	Andrés Martínez Trueba
In office 1955 – 1956
Born	1897
Died	1964
Political party	Colorado Party
Spouse	Matilde Ibañez
Children	Jorge Batlle, Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle
Occupation	Journalist

Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (1897 - 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure.

Contents 1 Background 2 Vice President of Uruguay 3 President of Uruguay (1st period of office) 4 President of Uruguay (2nd period of office) 5 Background 6 See also

[edit] Background

Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was selected — in hindsight, with far-reaching effect — to serve as Vice Presidential running-mate for Luis Tomás Berreta.

[edit] Vice President of Uruguay

He served as Vice President of Uruguay in 1947, and held this office upon the death of President Berreta.

[edit] President of Uruguay (1st period of office)

He was president of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951.

Within the Colorado Party he is now widely acknowledged for being the founder of the political branch known as Neo-Batllism. In this first period of Presidential office the Vice President of Uruguay was Alfeo Brum.

[edit] President of Uruguay (2nd period of office)

Batlle Berres was President of Uruguay again from 1955 to 1956. For this period, the office of Vice President of Uruguay, via which Batlle Berres himself had succeeded to the Presidency in his first term, was in abeyance.

[edit] Background

The great great grandson of Catalan settlers from Sitges, he was the son of another political figure, Luis Batlle y Ordóñez, brother of ex president José Batlle. His mother, Petrona Berres, was of Irish descent and died when he was still a small child. Then, his father remarried but died soon after, in 1908. As a result, he went to live with his uncle and his cousins in a farm in the suburbs of Montevideo.

In 1927 he married Matilde Ibáñez, with whom he had three children, the also ex president Jorge Batlle, Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle, the latter born in Argentina.

He was a member of the Colorado Party.

[edit] See also

• List of political families#Uruguay

Preceded by Luis Tomás Berreta	President of Uruguay 1947-1951	Succeeded by Andrés Martínez Trueba
Preceded by Andrés Martínez Trueba	President of Uruguay 1955-1956	Succeeded by Alberto Zubiría