Francisco Belaúnde Terry (3 October 1923 – 25 August 2020) was a Peruvian politician who served as a member of

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, in which he served as

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between 1980 and 1981. His brother

Fernando Belaúnde Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry (October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected i ...

had been twice President. He belongs to the Popular Action party. He died on 25 August 2020 at the age of 96.

Biography

He was born in Lima in 1923 in a family closely linked to politics. He was the son of Rafael Belaunde Diez Canseco and Lucila Terry García. His father was Minister of Government and President of the Council of Ministers in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (1945–46); his grandfather Mariano A. Belaunde de la Torre was Minister of Finance in the government of

Eduardo López de Romaña Eduardo López de Romaña y Alvizuri (19 March 1847 – 26 May 1912) served as the 32nd President of Peru from September 1899 to September 1903. A member of the landowning elite, he was the first engineer to become President of the Republic ...

(1899–1900); his great-grandfather, General Pedro Diez Canseco Corbacho, was interim president on three occasions (1863, 1865 and 1868); and his uncle Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco was a prominent intellectual and diplomat, who became President of the UN General Assembly in 1959, and Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru in 1957. He studied at different schools in France, the United States, Mexico and Chile. He finished high school at the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta. He entered the

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, where he studied law. Once he graduated, he dedicated himself to the exercise of his career in private activity. He died on 25 August 2020 at the age of 96.

References

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