Luis Batlle Berres

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Batlle and the second or maternal family name is Berres.

Luis Batlle
Luis Batlle Berres
President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
In office 1 March 1955 – 1 March 1956
Preceded by	Andrés Martínez Trueba
Succeeded by	Alberto Fermín Zubiría
30th President of Uruguay
In office 2 August 1947 – 1 March 1951
Vice President	Alfeo Brum
Preceded by	Tomás Berreta
Succeeded by	Andrés Martínez Trueba
4th Vice President of Uruguay
In office 1 March 1947 – 2 August 1947
President	Tomás Berreta
Preceded by	Alberto Guani
Succeeded by	Alfeo Brum
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1943–1945
Preceded by	Euclides Sosa Aguiar
Succeeded by	Juan Francisco Guichón
Personal details
Born	26 November 1897 Montevideo, Uruguay
Died	15 July 1964 (aged 66) Montevideo, Uruguay
Political party	Colorado Party
Spouse(s)	Matilde Ibáñez Tálice
Relations	José Batlle y Ordóñez (uncle) César Batlle Pacheco (cousin) Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco (cousin)
Children	Jorge Luis Luis César Matilde Linda
Alma mater	University of the Republic
Occupation	Journalist Politician
Profession	Lawyer

Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure.

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.

Vice President of Uruguay

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

Historical note

Batlle Berres was the fourth person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay. The office dates from 1934, when César Charlone became Uruguay's first Vice President.

President of Uruguay (1st period of office)

He was President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951, being succeeded in the office by Andrés Martínez Trueba.

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.

President of Uruguay (2nd period of office)

Batlle Berres was President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay from 1955 to 1956. Batlle thus both preceded and succeeded Andrés Martínez Trueba as President.

Background

The great great grandson of Catalan settlers from Sitges, Spain, 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 Tálice, with whom he had three children: the also ex president Jorge Batlle, concert pianist Luis Batlle and Matilde Linda Batlle, the latter born in Argentina.

He was a member of the Colorado Party.

See also

• List of political families#Uruguay
• Tomás Berreta#Death and succession

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Political offices
Preceded by Alberto Guani	Vice President of Uruguay 1947	Succeeded by Alfeo Brum
Preceded by Luis Tomás Berreta	President of Uruguay 1947–1951	Succeeded by Andrés Martínez Trueba
Preceded by Andrés Martínez Trueba	President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay 1955–1956	Succeeded by Alberto Zubiría