Background
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero was born in Arequipa on 15 January 1894.
government official politician
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero was born in Arequipa on 15 January 1894.
He was bom and educated in Arequipa. There he received his basic education at a Jesuit school, and his professional title of lawyer and doctorate in politics and public administration from the University of San Agustín (1929).
After a stint at high school teaching, he was a professor of philosophy, social geography, history of the Americas, and law at the University of San Agustín from 1922 to 1928. He drafted the revolutionary declaration of Commander Luís M. Sánchez Cerro, leader of the military coup in Arequipa (1930) that overthrew President Augusto B. Leguia, and served as minister of justice of the new de facto government. General Óscar R. Benavides, who assumed power after Sánchez Cerro’s assassination in 1933, and President Manuel Prado, Benavides’ successor, appointed him to important diplomatic posts.
Because the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP) was banned from having its own candidate in the 1945 general elections, the National Democratic Front (FND) which the PAP helped to found, elected Bustamante president of the Republic with 66.97 percent of the votes. However, the precarious FND coalition weakened progressively, leading to boycott of legislative sessions by pro-Bustamante and anti-Aprista senators. During the navy revolt in Callao on October 3, 1948, Bustamante outlawed the PAP. Twenty-four days later, General Manuel A. Odria, his minister of war, overthrew and exiled him.
Bustamante returned to Peru in 1955. Four years later he was elected member of the Peruvian Academy of the Spanish Language, and in 1960 he was elected dean of the Colegio de Abogados de Lima (Lima’s Association of Lawyers). In this same year, the United Nations appointed Bustamante member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. After his tenure in this international body, he retired to reside in Lima.