Antonio Marchesano (7 November 1930 – 24 January 2019) was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician.

Early life

Marchesano was born in Montevideo in 1930. A man of the Colorado Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1966. During the last years of the civic-military dictatorship he supported

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, who was elected president in November 1984; then, Marchesano was once again elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In February 1985 he assumed as

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. Later, in April 1986, he was appointed

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. He died in Montevideo on January 24, 2019.

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