Bernardo Prudencio Berro | |
Order: | 7th |
Office: | President of Uruguay |
Term Start: | March 1, 1860 |
Term End: | March 1, 1864 |
Predecessor: | Gabriel Antonio Pereira |
Successor: | Atanasio Cruz Aguirre |
Office2: | Provisional President of Uruguay (as President of the Senate) |
Term Start2: | February 15, 1852 |
Term End2: | March 1, 1852 |
Predecessor2: | Joaquín Suárez |
Successor2: | Juan Francisco Giró |
Birth Name: | Bernardo Prudencio Berro Larrañaga |
Birth Date: | April 28, 1803 |
Birth Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Death Date: | February 19, 1868 |
Death Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Death Cause: | murder |
Party: | National Party |
Spouse: | Práxedes Rosa Bustamante del Puerto |
Occupation: | politician revolutionary writer |
Allegiance: | Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata Blancos |
Bernardo Prudencio Berro (April 28, 1803 – February 19, 1868) was the President of Uruguay from 1860 to 1864.
Berro was a member of the National (Blanco) Party. He served as the President of the Senate of Uruguay in 1852, and from 1858 to 1859.[1]
Berro first served as head of state of Uruguay in a provisional government for several weeks in 1852, during a brief period in which the National Party came to power.
He led the National Party's return to power in 1860 and made attempts to unite the country's political factions, efforts not seldom opposed by members of his own Party and Government.
Berro and former president Venancio Flores were both assassinated on February 19, 1868.[2]