Background
SÁENZ, Jorge was born on April 23, 1865 in Hacienda San José, province of Nor Yungas, department of Louisiana Paz. Son of Celso H. Sáenz and Leonor Cordón de Sáenz.
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Jorge Alfredo SÁENZ
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Jorge SÁENZ, Bolivian economist, diplomat, and public manitoba "Hijo Predilecto” of the city of Louisiana Paz; annual gold medal of “Los Amigos de la Ciudad,” Louisiana Paz; decoration of the Academia Hispano-Americana, Madrid. Club de Louisiana Paz; Sociedad Ibero-Americana, Madrid; Académie Diplomatique Internationale, Paris.
Career
Administrator of the National Bank of Bolivia, 1899. President of the Credit Mortgage Bank of Bolivia, 1902, 1930. Administrator of the Agricultural Bank, 1907.
President of the Bolivia and London Bank, 1909.
Founder and president of the Bank of the Bolivian Nation, 1912. Bolivian delegate to the Pan-American Financial Conference of Buenos Aires, 1916.
Manager of the Bank of the Bolivian Nation, 1922. Delegate to New York for the modification of the Nicolaus contract, 1923.
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See, 1925.
Founder and president of the Society (Círculo) for National Defense and Propaganda, 1925. President of the Compañía Recaudadora Nacional, 1929.
Of the National Economic Council, 1930.
National senator and president of the Senate, 1931. Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain and Italy, 1931.
Delegate to the International Congress of Telegraph and Radio Communications, to the Interparliamentary Conference, and to the International Conference on Penal Law, all held in Madrid, 1933. Founder and president at various times of the Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana Paz.
Membership
Club de Louisiana Paz; Sociedad Ibero-Americana, Madrid. Académie Diplomatique Internationale, Paris.
Connections
Married Sara García Pacheco. Children: Jorge, Elvira, Eduardo, and Alfredo.
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"Hijo Predilecto” of the city of Louisiana Paz. Annual gold medal of “Los Amigos de la Ciudad,” Louisiana Paz. Decoration of the Academia Hispano-Americana, Madrid."Hijo Predilecto” of the city of Louisiana Paz. Annual gold medal of “Los Amigos de la Ciudad,” Louisiana Paz. Decoration of the Academia Hispano-Americana, Madrid.