Luis Bedoya Reyes

Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes (20 February 1919 – 18 March 2021) was a Peruvian Christian Democrat (PDC) and Christian People's Party (PPC) politician who served as the Mayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969.[1] He was also a Minister of Justice, member of the Peruvian Congress, and ran unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency two times. He was the founder of the Christian People's Party (PPC).[2] He was the father of Javier Bedoya, a former congressman and deputy, and Luis Bedoya de Vivanco, former mayor of Miraflores.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bedoya and the second or maternal family name is Reyes.

Luis Bedoya Reyes
Bedoya in 2019
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office
28 July 1978 – 26 July 1980
ConstituencyNational
Mayor of Lima
In office
1 January 1964 – 31 December 1969
Preceded byAnita Fernandini de Naranjo
Succeeded byEduardo Dibós Chappuis
Minister of Justice and Worship of Peru
In office
28 July 1963 – 31 December 1963
PresidentFernando Belaúnde
Prime MinisterJulio Óscar Trelles Montes
Preceded byJuan Orrego Aguinaga
Succeeded byEmilio Llosa Ricketts
President of the Christian People's Party
Founding President (Honorary Title)
In office
18 December 1966 – 18 December 1999
Preceded byParty founded
Succeeded byÁntero Flores Aráoz (President)
Personal details
Born(1919-02-20)20 February 1919
Callao, Peru
Died18 March 2021(2021-03-18) (aged 102)
Lima, Peru
Political partyChristian People's Party
SpouseMaría Laura de Vivanco Sotomayor
ChildrenLaura Bedoya de Vivanco
Rosario Bedoya de Vivanco
Luis Bedoya de Vivanco
Javier Bedoya de Vivanco
Pedro Antonio Bedoya de Vivanco
Marisol Bedoya de Vivanco
Roxana Bedoya de Vivanco
Parents
  • Jacinto Bedoya Falconí (father)
  • Luz Reyes de la Torre (mother)
RelativesJavier Bedoya Denegri (grandson)
Jaime Bedoya Delboy (cousin)
Santiago Bedoya Pardo (grand-nephew)

Biography

He was born in Callao, on 20 February 1919, the son of Jacinto Bedoya Falconí and Luz Reyes de la Torre.[3] He attended high school at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe School, where he stood out for his love of basketball.

He entered the Faculty of Letters of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos with high qualifications, after which he went on to the Faculty of Law of the same university, a career in which he would graduate in 1942.

He married María Laura de Vivanco Sotomayor, with whom he had seven children: Luis Guillermo (†), Javier Alonso, Laura, María del Rosario, Pedro Antonio, Marisol (†) and Roxana. His son, Javier Bedoya de Vivanco was a Congressman of the Republic from 2006 to 2016, and his grandson, Javier Bedoya Denegri, was Lieutenant Mayor of San Isidro from 2015 to 2018.

Retired from politics since 1999, he served as counselor of the Bedoya Law Firm (Estudio Bedoya Abogados). He turned 100 in February 2019, and died in March 2021 at the age of 102.[4]

See also
Bedoya (right) in 2015 with his son and his grandson.

Ancestry

References
  1. Howard Handelman & Thomas Griffin Sanders (1981). Military government and the movement toward democracy in South America. p. 113. ISBN 0253105552.
  2. "Luis Bedoya: No debilitemos al hombre que va a presidir el país". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011.
  3. "Luis Bedoya Reyes: el secreto para vivir 100 años". COSAS.PE (in Spanish). 21 February 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. GESTIÓN, NOTICIAS (18 March 2021). "Luis Bedoya Reyes, fundador del PPC, falleció hoy a los 102 años | nndc | PERU". Gestión.


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