Mateo MARQUES CASTRO

Background

MARQUES CASTRO, Mateo was born on November 15, 1894 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Career

Director general, ministry of foreign relations, under-secretary, 1932-1934. Secretary, Presidency of the Republic, 1931-1932. Director general and president, advisory board of foreign economic relations.

Vice-president, national tourist commission. Delegate, VII Inter-American Conference, Montevideo, 1933, Pan American Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, 1935, Inter-American Conference on Radio Communications, 1937. President, tech, commission on treaties with Argentina, 1933-1934.

Minister plenipotentiary, Cuba, 1936-1938, special mission to Canada, 1936. Directing council, Federación Rural. Honorary president, Institute Cultural Cubano-Uruguayo.

Officer, orders of Leopold II of Belgium, Cóndor de los Andes (Bolivia), Al Mérito (Chile), White Lion (Czechoslovakia), Orange-Nassau (Netherlands), Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cuba). National senator, 1939-1942. Government counselor, 1942-1943.

Ambassador to Mexico, since 1943.

Membership

Member tech, commission on the establishment of income tax, 1941. Member Institute Cultural Uruguayo-Boliviano, Asociación de Artistas y Escritores Americanos, Institute Sanmartiniano del Uruguay. Member directing council, Federación Rural.

Connections

Spouse:

Corina Seré Rucker

child:

Susana MARQUES CASTRO

child:

Mateo MARQUES CASTRO

child:

Monica MARQUES CASTRO