| Alberto Lleras Camargo | |
 Oil painting by Ricardo Gomez Campuzano |
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In office August 7, 1958 – August 7, 1962 |
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| Preceded by | Colombian Military Junta Gabriel París Gordillo |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo León Valencia |
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In office April 30, 1948 – August 1, 1954 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Dávila |
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In office August 7, 1945 – August 7, 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo |
| Succeeded by | Mariano Ospina Perez |
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In office February 12, 1945 – August 2, 1945 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Umaña Bernal |
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In office October 8, 1943 – February 12, 1945 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo (1943,
1944-1945) Darío Echandía (1943-1944) |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Rocha |
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In office February 27, 1937 – August 7, 1938 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Lozano y Lozano |
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In office October 10, 1935 – January 12, 1937 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía |
| Succeeded by | Darío Echandía |
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In office April 1943 – October 1943 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
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In office January 28, 1937 – February 27, 1937 |
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| President | Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Preceded by | Darío Echandía |
| Succeeded by | Tulio Enrique Tascón Pérez |
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| Born | July 3, 1906 Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia |
| Died | January 4, 1990 (aged 83) Bogotá, DC, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Berta Puga Martínez |
| Relations | Arturo Puga (father-in-law) |
| Children | Alberto Lleras Puga Ximena Lleras Puga Marcela Lleras Puga Consuelo Lleras Puga |
| Alma mater | Our Lady of the Rosary University |
| Occupation | Journalist, diplomat, politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906 – 1990) was an important Colombian diplomat and political figure.
He was a member of the Liberal Party of Colombia; he served as congressman (1931-1935), Minister of Education, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the governments of Alfonso López Pumarejo and Eduardo Santos. He served too as acting President of Colombia between 1945 and 1946. He then served as the first secretary general of the Organization of American States from 1948 to 1954. Finally, he served as President of Colombia between 1958 and 1962. During this later term, he founded the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform (INCORA), with the intention of implementing a needed degree of land reform in the country.
In 1929 he was elected Alderman for Bogota, which marked his first
foray into politics. The following year he was secretary of the
general direction of liberalism, and in 1931 was elected to the
House of Representatives for Bogota. That same year he became the
first liberal to come to preside over the House in more than forty
years. After the election of Alfonso López Pumarejo as president in
1934, was appointed by him as Secretary General of the Presidency.
In 1935 he moved to the Ministry of Government, a position he held
until the end of government. In 1938 he founded the newspaper El
Liberal, which led to Lopez's reelection in 1941 and returned to
the House of Representatives, presided over. With Lopez's return to
the presidency in 1942, he held the portfolio of government again.
In 1943 he went as Ambassador to the United States, but the same
year he returned and resumed the ministry of government. As such he
had to face the quasi-coup in July 1944 by the Designated Dario
Echandia, who assumed the presidency. In 1945 he was appointed
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as such, represented Colombia at
the Conference of Chapultepec, and the San Francisco Conference
which created the UN, elected that year by the Senate as a
presidential candidate, it should have the presidency after the
resignation of Lopez, a position he held until the following year,
when elections were held which gave victory to conservative
candidate Mariano Ospina Pérez. At 39 years he was the youngest
incumbent president in history with General Eustorgio Salgar.
During his government he founded the Flota Mercante and concluded
the constitutional reform of 1945.
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