Juan Pablo Terra
Juan Pablo Terra (1924–1991) was a Uruguayan architect, sociologist, and political figure.
Juan Pablo Terra
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- Born
- 1924 · Montevideo.
- Died
- 1991 · Montevideo.
- Nationality
- Uruguay
- Occupation
- politician · architect · painter · sociologist
- Education
- University of the Republic
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- Spanish
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Juan Pablo Terra (1924–1991) was a Uruguayan architect, sociologist, and political figure.
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Juan Pablo Terra (1924–1991) was an architect, painter and politician, among other activities, a national of Uruguay. The architect was born and died in Montevideo.
Juan Pablo Terra was educated at University of the Republic. The architect held the positions of Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay and Senator of the República Oriental del Uruguay.
Languages used include Spanish. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Background
Background
His father Horacio Terra Arocena served as a Senator. His great-uncle Gabriel Terra was President of Uruguay 1931–1938. Carrera Graduated as an architect at the University of the Republic in 1950. He worked as a professor of Sociology and Research Methodology at the Faculty of Architecture from 1958 to 1987. This integrated the Directing Council of the Faculty of Architecture and the first Directing Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic.
Political offices
Political offices
Juan Pablo Terra served both as a Deputy and a Senator. Having begun his political career as a Uruguayan Christian Democrat, he subsequently represented the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) in the Senate, a grouping which he played a leading part in founding in 1971. Some of his brothers also ventured into politics: Francisco in the Colorado Party, and Horacio in the National Party, (towards the end of the civic-military dictatorship, he chaired the Human Rights Commission that filed numerous complaints)..
Private life
Private life
He married to María del Carmen Ortiz, with whom he has eight children. Both by kinship and by affinity he was linked to a greater or lesser extent to numerous wealthy families that have had an important influence on Uruguayan politics throughout its history, such as the Terra, Arocena, Gallinal, Artagaveytia, Heber, Bordaberry, Urioste, etc.
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Juan Pablo Terra is recorded as politician, architect, painter and sociologist.
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1924
Juan Pablo Terra was born in 1924 at Montevideo.
1991
Juan Pablo Terra died in 1991 at Montevideo.
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- 1.Terra, Juan Pablo · Biobibliografías · Omeka Biblioteca. omeka.parlamento.gub.uy.
- 2.Uruguay, una cloaca de degenerados, se cierra sobre sí mismo. El Observador.
- 3.Web, CREACTIVOS Diseño. Biografía. Instituto Humanista Cristiano JUAN PABLO TERRA.
- 4.'Juan Pablo Terra', Wikipedia (in Spanish), :es:Juan Pablo Terra,
- 5.TERRA, Juan Pablo – Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas. diccionario.cedinci.org.
- 6.KfW Entwicklungsbank. www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de.
- 7.Juan Pablo Terra. Instituto Juan Pablo Terra.
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