Background
BELAÚNDE Y DIEZ CANSECO, Rafael was born on March 8, 1886 in Arequipa. Son of Mariano A. Belaúnde and Mercedes Diez Canseco de Belaúnde. Descendant of Spanish conquistadores.
BELAÚNDE Y DIEZ CANSECO, Rafael was born on March 8, 1886 in Arequipa. Son of Mariano A. Belaúnde and Mercedes Diez Canseco de Belaúnde. Descendant of Spanish conquistadores.
Secretary of the Superior Council of Mines, 1904. Of the Bureau of Industry, 1905. Official archivist of the Peruvian Senate, 1906.
Official archivistlibrarian of the same, 1907. First official of the Senate, 1912. For ten years secretary of the Senate Budget and Finance Committees.
Professor in the Institute of Lima, 1917-1921. Secretary of the Peruvian Senate, 1922. Suffered political incarceration, 1924.
Exiled by the Leguia dictatorship, 1924-1930. In Paris, 1924— 1929. Head of the Department of Spanish and professor of South American economic geography in the University of Miami, Florida, 1929-1933.
With the overthrow of Leguia, Dr. Belaúnde was recalled to Perú as legal adviser to the President, a position which he later declined to enter the more active political life of his country. Failing, however, in his attempts to effect a conciliation of parties, Dr. Belaúnde again returned to the University of Miami (1930) where he remained until 1933, year in which, thanks to the advent of a new administration, he was offered the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico. Delegate of the University of Miami to the International University Congress of Havana, 1930.
Of the Peruvian Chambers of Commerce to the Fourth Pan-American Commercial Conference of Washington, 1931. Peruvian delegate to the Twenty-first International Statistical Congress of Mexico, 1933.
College of Lawyers and National Club of Lima. Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. Mexican Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
Married Lucila Terry de Belaúnde. Children: Rafael, Lucila, Fernando, Mercedes, Francisco, and Juan Manuel.