Luis Alberto Sánchez Sánchez | |
Office: | First Vice President of Peru |
President: | Alan García |
Term Start: | 28 July 1985 |
Term End: | 28 July 1990 |
Predecessor: | Fernando Schwalb López Aldana |
Successor: | Máximo San Román |
Office2: | Prime Minister of Peru |
President2: | Alan García |
Term Start2: | 15 May 1989 |
Term End2: | 30 September 1989 |
Predecessor2: | Armando Villanueva |
Successor2: | Guillermo Larco Cox |
Office3: | Minister of the Presidency |
President3: | Alan García |
Term Start3: | 15 May 1989 |
Term End3: | 30 September 1989 |
Predecessor3: | Agustín Mantilla |
Successor3: | Rodolfo Beltrán Bravo |
Office4: | Member of the Senate |
Constituency4: | Lima |
Term Start4: | 28 July 1963 |
Term End4: | 28 July 1968 |
Term Start5: | 26 July 1980 |
Term End5: | 5 April 1992 |
Office6: | President of the Senate |
Term Start6: | 28 July 1965 |
Term End6: | 28 July 1966 |
Predecessor6: | Ramiro Prialé |
Successor6: | David Aguilar Cornejo |
Term Start7: | 26 July 1985 |
Term End7: | 26 July 1986 |
Predecessor7: | Manuel Ulloa Elías |
Successor7: | Armando Villanueva |
Office8: | First Vice President of the Constituent Assembly |
President8: | Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre |
Term Start8: | 28 July 1978 |
Term End8: | 13 July 1979 |
Office9: | Member of the Constituent Assembly |
Term Start9: | 28 July 1978 |
Term End9: | 13 July 1979 |
Office10: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Constituency10: | Lima |
Term Start10: | 28 July 1945 |
Term End10: | 29 October 1948 |
Office11: | Member of the Constituent Congress |
Term Start11: | 8 December 1931 |
Term End11: | 8 January 1932 (Deposed) |
Birth Date: | 12 October 1900 |
Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
Death Place: | Lima, Peru |
Party: | Peruvian Aprista Party |
Alma Mater: | National University of San Marcos |
Luis Alberto Félix Sánchez Sánchez (October 12, 1900 – February 6, 1994) was a Peruvian lawyer, jurist, philosopher, historian, writer and politician. A historic member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he became a Senator and member of two Constitutional Assemblies, in which the second one (1978–1980), he occupied the vice-presidency of the Assembly and the presidency of the Constitution Committee.[1] During the presidency of Alan García (1985–1990), he was his Second Vice President[2] and was appointed for a short period as Prime Minister of Peru. In Congress he served as President of the Senate two occasions (1966–1967 and 1985–1986).[3] He is the oldest Vice President of Peru, taking office at the age of 84 years, 289 days.
The figure of Luis Alberto Sanchez, who was born at Lima in 1900, covers most of the century. He was three times Provost of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Together with Raúl Porras Barrenechea and Jorge Guillermo Leguia, he was one of the leading figures of the Conversation University founded in 1919 with the participation, among others, of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Jorge Basadre, Carlos Paz Soldan Moreyra, Ricardo Garcia and Jose Luis Vegas Llosa Belaunde.
Among his literary works and news articles we have a large amount from Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, first Creole (1939), Aladdin or life and work of Jose Santos Chocano (1960), process and content of the Latin American novel (1968), comparative History of American literature (1973–1976), to Indianism and Indigenism in Peruvian literature (1981).
But his main work and the dearest was dedicated to Manuel González Prada, which took shape with titles like 'Don Manuel' (1930), 'Myth and Reality of Gonzalez Prada' (1976), 'Our lives are the rivers ... History and legend of González Prada' (1977) and a substantial variety of editions of the work of González Prada. As a politician, was a prominent figure of the Peruvian Aprista Party and scored the second most votes, after Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, during the general elections to constitute the Constituent Assembly in 1979. He was elected Second Vice President of Peru in 1985, as the running mate of Alan García. He was also re-elected as Senator at the same time.
At the end of his life, in 1990 he was elected Senator and served until the closing of Congress by the 1992 self-coup of Alberto Fujimori. He died in 1994 in Lima, dedicating his last days to writing.
He taught at the Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt.[4]