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Diplomat and lawyer Dr. Jose A. Mora, was born in Montevideo
on November 22, 1897. In 1925 he became a Doctor in Law and Social Sciences
from the Law School of the University of Montevideo and the same year he
integred the Ministry of External Relations as Second Secretary of legal
issues. In 1926 he went to Madrid, Spain and Portugal. In the next following
four years he was working in similar positions in Brazil and the United States.
When he returned to the Uruguayan Capital in 1931, he was
designated Chief of the International Organization Division of the Ministry of
External Relations. Thus he began his long and valuable experience in
International Conferences. In 1935 he went to the Commercial Conference which
was celebrated in Buenos Aires and was the General Secretary of the Uruguayan
Delegation. In 1936 he went to the Inter American Conference for Peace
Consolidation which was celebrated also in Buenos Aires and in 1938 was
temporal Representative of the Nations League in its headquarter in Geneva.
He was Advisor of the Uruguayan Delegation in three External
Relations Minister Conferences: The Panama, celebrated in 1939; Havana, in 1940
and the Rio de Janeiro in 1942. That last year he was named Plenipotentiary
Minister in Bolivia and he served that position until 1944, year in which he
assisted to the Inter-American Commission of Development Conference celebrated
in New York while he was the President of the Uruguayan Delegation.
When he went back to Montevideo in 1945, he was named
Director of the International Organization Division, Congresses and Conferences
of the External Relations Ministry, which was extended. He took place as
Advisor of the Uruguayan Delegation in the Inter-American Conference of War and
Peace Problems in Mexico and in the United Nations Conference in San Francisco.
He also was a Delegate of the Uruguayan Supplementary in Washington in the
Jurists Committee, which wrote up the International Justice Court statute.
In 1946, Dr. Mora was named Plenipotentiary Minister in the
United States. Moreover he represented his country in the International
Sanitary Conference of United Nations (New York); in the second part of the
First General Assembly of the United Nations in 1947 and, in the Inter-American
Conference for the Continent Security and Peace Maintenance, which was
celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, in which the Inter-American Reciprocal Assistance
Treaty was subscribed.
Dr. Mora was Plenipotentiary Delegated to the Ninth American
International Conference celebrated in Bogota in 1948 and Uruguayan
Representative in the Organization of American States Council from which he was
its first Vice– President.
In 1950 he was President of the Consulting Body for the
Caribbean Situation Commission and in 1931 he was Plenipotentiary Delegate to
the Peace Conference with Japan, which was celebrated in San Francisco. In
March 26, 1951 he was named Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of
Uruguay to United States and in the same year he represented Uruguay in the
fourth External Relations Consult Ministers Meeting of the American Republics,
celebrated in Washington.
In 1954 he was President of the Uruguayan Delegation to the
Tenth Inter-American Conference, celebrated in Caracas from November 1954 to
November of 1955. He was the President of the Organization of American States
Council.
When he was the President of the Council named in the last
paragraph, Dr. Mora was praised by his Ambassadors Colleges for the effort in
favor to the continental armony and because of his ability to direct the
activities of that Body. The arrangement between Costa Rica and Nicaragua
disputes was a particular motive for which Dr. Mora was praised.
In October 8, 1955, the Inter-American Association for
Freedom and Democracy gave him a condecoration because of his valuable
contribution to Democracy.
In January 16, 1956, Dr. Mora was elected General Secretary
of the Organization of American States to complete the unfinished exercise of
Dr Carlos Dávila, of Chile, that passed away in October of 1955. In May of
1958, the Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida) conferred him the honorary
title of Doctor in Humanities.
In June of 1959, he received honorary degrees of Doctor in
Civil Law and Doctor in Law from the Universities of Pittsburgh and Colgate,
respectively. Dr. Mora married Miss. Susana Nery and had two daughters, Gladys
and Susana, and a son Juan Antonio.
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