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Eduardo Schaerer

President of Paraguay

Died when: 67 years 345 days (815 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Eduardo Schaerer

Eduardo Schaerer Vera y Aragón (2 December 1873 – 12 November 1941) was a Swiss-Paraguayan businessman, publisher, and Liberal politician.He served as President of the Republic of Paraguay between 1912 and 1916.

Schaerer was succeeded by Manuel Franco on 15 August 1916.Ex-president Schaerer continued in public service as a senator in 1921 and founded the newspaper La Tribuna (The Tribune) in 1925.

Schaerer was born in Caazapá, on 2 December 1873 to Santiago Schaerer and Elizabeth Vera y Aragon.His father was a notable Swiss colonizer (from Vordemwald, Aargau), and the special character that distinguished Schaerer was inherited from him.

Schaerer married to Matilde Heisecke (daughter of Christian Heisecke, a German diplomat and consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).She had seven children with him, including Arturo Schaerer Heisecke, director of La Tribuna after his father and a recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a journalism award of the Columbia University, in 1953.


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