José Luis Murature (27 January 1876 – 15 September 1929) was an

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lawyer, journalist, professor and foreign minister of Argentina from 1914 to 1916. Born in

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, the son of José P. Murature and Dolores Legarrete, he was educated at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the

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. Murature was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1898. He was later a member of the staff of ''

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'' newspaper in Buenos Aires, rising to Managing Editor. Murature taught in the Military School, where he held the professorship from 1905 to 1914, and from 1914 to 1916, he acted as the Foreign Minister of Argentina. He died in

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, on 15 September 1929.Sergi, Jorge (1940). ''Historia de los italianos en la Argentina'', p. 127.

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