Alberto Guani Carrara was a Uruguayan jurist, diplomat and the Vice President and President of the Senate from 1943 to 1947.
15 Facts About Alberto Guani
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Alberto Guani was born in Montevideo on 14 June 1877.
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Alberto Guani studied law, and became a well-known lawyer specializing in International Law.
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Alberto Guani studied law in Montevideo and, after obtaining a doctorate in law, he taught at the University of Montevideo.
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Early in his career Dr Guani wrote about political and economic issues at El Siglo and El Tiempo newspapers, as well as writing for other publications.
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In Uruguayan politics, Alberto Guani was a member of the Colorado Party.
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Alberto Guani became the first Delegate of Uruguay to the League of Nations and was elected by his peers to the presidency of the Council Assembly in 1927.
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Alberto Guani was the first Uruguayan to dictate a course on International Law at the Academy in The Hague.
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Alberto Guani entered the diplomatic service, and served as Uruguay's Plenipotentiary Minister in Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, in Belgium and the Netherlands, in France, and in the United Kingdom.
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Dr Alberto Guani was appointed Foreign Minister by Alfredo Baldomir, and served in that office from 1938 to 1943.
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Alberto Guani fought against fascism at the Pan American Conference, at the Third Consultation Meeting, he established the basis for the fulfillment of inter-American military agreements, through the statutes declared on the "Alberto Guani Doctrine".
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Between 1939 and 1943 Alberto Guani was the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Alberto Guani was himself succeeded in 1947 by Luis Batlle Berres in the office of Vice President of Uruguay.
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Alberto Guani was the author of several texts among them; The Italian Homeland and The Budget of the Republic and several important Conferences and Courses.
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Alberto Guani was the third person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay.