Background
ARANHA, Oswaldo was born on February 15, 1894 in Alegrete, State of Rio Grande do Sul. Son of Euclydes Egydio de Souza Aranha and Luisa de Freitas-Valle Aranha.
ARANHA, Oswaldo was born on February 15, 1894 in Alegrete, State of Rio Grande do Sul. Son of Euclydes Egydio de Souza Aranha and Luisa de Freitas-Valle Aranha.
Educated Escola Militar, Rio de Janeiro, 1908-1911, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales, Paris, 1912-1914. Bachelor of Laws, University do Brasil, 1916. Dr. honoris causa, George Washington University, and Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvania).
Assistant, chief of police, Porto Alegre, 1924-1925. Mayor of Alegrete, 1925-1927. Professor, law school, University de Porto Alegre, 1927.
State deputy, 1927; federal deputy, 1928. State secretary of interior and justice, Rio Grande do Sul, 1929. Acting president, Rio Grande do Sul, 1930.
Minister of justice, 1930-1931. Minister of finance, 1931-1934. Leader, national constituent assembly.
President, commission to study economics and finance. Ambassador to the United States, 1934-1938. Delegate, 2d Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Washington, 1935.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to inauguration of President Miguel Mariano Gómez, of Cuba, 1936. Brazilian delegate, Inter-American Conference for Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, 1936. Minister of foreign affairs, 1938-1944.
Brazilian representative, United Nations, 1946-1947, pres, of its special session on Palestine, 1947. President, Assembly of the United Nations, 1947.
Member: Society Amigos da América (president), honorary brigadier general of Brazilian army.