Domingo Bordaberry Elizondo (1889–1952) was a

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an lawyer and political figure.

Early career

Bordaberry was a lawyer by profession. He became a farm manager and subsequently a landowner.

Senator

Bordaberry served as a Senator under the sponsorship of the

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; he was regarded as one of its more conservative members, and also acted as somewhat of a bridge to the

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Party, being strongly identified, with the

Benito Nardone Benito Nardone Cetrulo (November 22, 1906 – March 25, 1964) was a Uruguayan journalist and political figure. Biography Nardone was born at Montevideo, the son of an Italian immigrant. For many years he was a popular radio commentator at CX 4 ...

and others, with the defence of rural interests, and was particularly expert on livestock matters. He was particularly linked with the 'Riverista' current of opinion within the

, although his record for political cooperation reached much beyond that Party. With Nardone, he was also heavily involved in the development of radio broadcasting for rural

, as co-owner of CX 4 Radio Rural.

Family background

Domingo Bordaberry was the son of Santiago Bordaberry Senior, a French national from the Northern Basque Country. Domingo Bordaberry's son

Juan María Bordaberry Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011) was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who served as constitutional President from 1972 until 1973, and then ruled as the head of a civilian-military dictatorship up t ...

served with him in a prominent Ruralist organization and later became President of Uruguay in 1972. A grandson,

Pedro Bordaberry Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born 28 April 1960) is a Uruguayan attorney, lecturer and politician, who served as a Senator of the Republic from 2010 to 2020, as Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2003 to 2005, and as Minister of Industry, Ene ...

, was to serve as a minister in the government of

Jorge Batlle Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez (; ''Batlle'' locally or ; 25 October 1927 – 24 October 2016) was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, and a member of the Colorado Party. He served as the President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Jorge Batlle b ...

. Another grandson, Santiago Bordaberry, was to be prominent in Ruralist leadership.

Political heritage

Domingo Bordaberry may be said to have contributed to a distinct tendency within

an political culture in that he and his son

, standing apart somewhat from the Montevideo-based political life, also succeeded by one means or another in garnering at least limited support from both of the formerly mutually antagonistic

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(Blanco) and

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parties. (This antagonism may be understood in the context of the intermittent Civil War which occurred throughout much of the 19th century.) The wide personal political support commanded in recent years by his grandson

, himself a former government minister, which reaches beyond the lately low poll percentages received by the formerly dominant

, is thus arguably not beyond the context of an apparent capacity to unify support from diverse parts of the

an party spectrum inherited in some measure from Domingo Bordaberry. The relevance of this capacity for cooperation, particularly for the second round of the more recent Presidential elections, between the National and Colorado Parties, has been made more acute by the greatly increased electoral support in recent years for the Frente Amplio grouping.

References

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Early career

Senator

Family background

Political heritage

See also

References