
Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero (15 January 1894-11 January 1989) was President of Peru from 28 July 1945 to 29 October 1948, succeeding Manuel Prado Ugarteche and preceding Manuel A. Odria.
Biography[]
Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1894, and he worked as a professor and legal scholar before writing the manifesto that launched the 1930 coup against Augusto B. Leguia. He served as ambassador to Bolivia from 1934 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1945 and to Uruguay from 1939 to 1942. Bustamante was elected President in 1945, and he restored press freedom and full civil rights, but he was forced to crush civil rights in October 1948 amid an APRA-backed military revolt. General Manuel A. Odria wrested control of the government in October 1948, and he went into exile before returning to Peru in 1956. He helped mediate an end to the Football War in 1969 and served as a senator from 1980 until his death in 1989.