Pedro Joaquín CHAMORRO

Background

CHAMORRO, Pedro Joaquín was born on April 7, 1891 in Granada, Nicaragua.

Education

Educated Institute Nacional and Liceo Salvadoreño, San Salvador. Institute Nacional de Oriente, Granada. Doctor of Law, University de Oriente y Mediodía, 1918.

Career

Professor, of law, University de Oriente y Mediodía. Alderman, Granada; consul in London. Secretary, legation, Italy and the Holy See, 1921.

Deputy, Congreso Nacional. Under-secretary of interior, 1928. Secretary of delegation to mediation conferences in San José, Costa Rica, regarding frontier dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras, 1938.

Director, daily La Prensa, and the Revista of the Academy, de Geografía e Historia de Nicaragua. Member Academy Nicaragüense de la Lengua, Academy Nacional de la Historia, Liga Nacional de Periodistas. Correspondent member Academy Española de la Lengua.

Membership

Member Academy Nicaragüense de la Lengua, Academy Nacional de la Historia, Liga Nacional de Periodistas. Member Academy Española de la Lengua.

Connections

Father:

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Bolaños

Mother:

Ana Maria Zelaya Bolaños

Spouse:

Margarita Cardenal

child:

Ligiaj Francisco Javier CHAMORRO

child:

Ana María CHAMORRO

child:

Pedro Joaquín CHAMORRO

child:

Jaime CHAMORRO