Alberto Sáenz de Zumarán Ortiz de Taranco, known as Alberto Zumarán (10 October 1940 – 4 August 2020) was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician, belonging to the
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Zumarán was born in
Montevideo
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, the son of José María Sáenz de Zumarán Arocena and Isabel Ortiz de Taranco y García de Zúñiga. He married Angelita Aguerre Cat and they had five children: Virginia, Magdalena, Adriana, Alejandro, and Santiago.
At the end of the
civic-military dictatorship, National Party leader
Wilson Ferreira Aldunate
Wilson Ferreira Aldunate (1919–1988) was a Uruguayan politician and a historically important member of the National Party.
Biography
He was Minister of Agriculture during the second National Council of Government (Uruguay) with Blanco major ...
was banned and jailed. Thus Zumaran was an important presidential candidate in the
1984 election. After Ferreira Aldunate died, Zumaran was designated his political heir, so once again he ran as presidential candidate in the
1989 election. On both occasions he was elected to the
Senate
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1940 births
2020 deaths
Uruguayan people of Basque descent
Politicians from Montevideo
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
20th-century Uruguayan lawyers
National Party (Uruguay) politicians
Candidates for President of Uruguay
Members of the Senate of Uruguay
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