Background
MIRÓ QUESADA, Luis was born on December 5, 1880 in Lima, Peru.
Diplomat lawyer newspaperman professor
MIRÓ QUESADA, Luis was born on December 5, 1880 in Lima, Peru.
Educated University de San Marcos, 1898-1904 (Doctor of Law, Ph.D.).
Secretary of the Peruvian legation to Argentina, 1904. Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of San Marcos, 1905. Deputy from Tumbes, 1906-1912.
Delegate of the University of San Marcos to the Latin American Scientific Congress of Santiago de Chile, 1909. Peruvian delegate to the International Conference on School Hygiene of Buffalo, New York, 1912. Titular professor of pedagogy in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of San Marcos, 1914.
Recorder of the City of Lima, 1915. Mayor, 1916-1918; one of the defenders of Lima in the radical uprising of 1919. Director of El Comercio of Lima.
Delegate of El Comercio to the Pan-American Congress of Journalists, Washington, 1921. Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 1926-1927. Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1931.
Peruvian delegate to the League of Nations and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland since 1933. Decorations: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Perú. Official of the Crown of Belgium.
Married Elvira Garland. Children: Elvira, Enriqueta, Luis, and Alejandro.