José Antonio Mora

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

Life

José Mora Otero studied post-school law and social sciences and completed both courses in 1925 with a doctorate.

Immediately thereafter he entered the diplomatic service and was first secretary of legation at the State Department before he was transferred in 1926 as First Secretary to the embassies in Spain and Portugal. Subsequently, he was first in 1928 First Secretary at the Embassy in Brazil and then in 1930 at the Embassy in the United States.

After his return to Uruguay followed in 1931 he was appointed Head of the Department for International Organizations and International Law at the State Department and soon earned a reputation as an expert in the field of international conferences and mergers. In the trade conference in 1935 in Buenos Aires, he was also Secretary of the Delegation of Uruguay as the 1936 also held in Buenos Aires Inter-American Peace Conference.

In 1938 he became deputy representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and he was in this capacity also a consultant with the Pan-American foreign ministers conferences 1939 in Panama City, 1940 in Havana, and in 1942 in Buenos Aires. On 21 May 1942 he was appointed Uruguayan ambassador to Bolivia. Last Mora Otero was at the same time from 1948 to 1956 Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS, whose advice he presided 1954-1955.

Following took place on January 16, 1956 his choice initially for two years on an interim point and then for a ten-year term of office for the third Secretary General of the OAS as a successor to the provisional incumbent Secretary-General Wilhelm Manger and held that office until May 18, 1967. Successor as Secretary General of the OAS was Galo Plaza Lasso.

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

External links and sources

• Biography in Munzinger archive
• Rulers.org
• Meyers Lexicon Great people, Mannheim 1968, p 915