Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez

Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (* June 27, 1890 in Bogotá, † June 20, 1972 ) was a Colombian diplomat, politician of the conservative Partido Conservador Colombiano and 1951-1953 Acting President of Colombia.

Biography

After schooling, he studied law at the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, as well as the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and subsequently worked as a lawyer and as a journalist.

In July 1931 he was appointed by President Enrique Olaya Herrera as foreign minister in his cabinet, and held this office also under his successor Alfonso López Pumarejo to December 1934. 1935, his accreditation as ambassador to Peru. This office he held until his appointment as Ambassador to Argentina in 1939, where he worked until 1942.

In March 1945, President López Pumarejo appointed him Minister of Finance and Public Credit. However, he handed over this office after ten days in April 1945 to his predecessor Carlos Sanz de Santamaría. In December 1946 he took over in the cabinet of President Mariano Ospina Pérez, the Office of the Minister of the Interior.

He was then in January 1948 as the successor of López Pumarejo second Ambassador of Colombia to the United Nations in New York City and remained until 1949 in this post.

After his return to Colombia he was appointed to the government in August 1950 by President Laureano Gómez, first as Minister of War. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was then Minister of the Interior in July 1951.

After increasing domestic crises and emerging criticism of President Gómez he was on November 5, 1951, his successor as President of Colombia. On 13 June 1953 he was then was deposed by a military coup of the commander in chief of the armed forces appointed by him General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and replaced by this. However, the military coup was directed actually against the exiled elected President Gómez, who had announced his return to Colombia.

• President ( Colombia)
• Secretary of State ( Columbia )
• Minister of the Interior (Colombia )
• Finance (Colombia )
• Of Defense (Colombia )
• Member of the Partido Conservador Colombiano
• Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
• Ambassador to Peru
• Ambassador to Argentina
• Lawyer ( Colombia)
• Person (Bogotá )
• Born in 1890
• Died in 1972
• Man