Eduardo Blanco Acevedo

Eduardo Blanco Acevedo (Montevideo, 14 March 1884 to 7 July 1971) was a Uruguayan physician who also became one of the leading political figures of his country. The son of Juan Carlos Blanco Fernandez and Luisa Acevedo, he came from a family prominent in academic and political life, and he was long associated with the Colorado Party. He was the father-in-law of President Gabriel Terra and served in the 1930s as Terra's minister of public health, a post that placed a practising physician in charge of national health policy. He was a Senator in the 1930s and 1940s and President of the Senate of Uruguay in 1950. In the 1950s he served as minister of public instruction, and from 1952 to 1955 he sat on the National Council of Government. His record in this atlas is that of a physician whose medical training led into public office rather than that of a clinical innovator.