Emilio Frugoni

Emilio Frugoni was born on 30 March 1880 in Montevideo. A law student, he fought on the government side during the uprisings of 1897 and 1904, then turned to socialism. In 1910, he founded the Uruguayan Socialist Party, of which he was the first deputy and for a long time the secretary general. A professor of labour legislation and dean of the law faculty at the time of the 1933 coup d'état, he was imprisoned and then expelled to Buenos Aires. Minister plenipotentiary in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, he returned from it critical of the regime. He died on 28 August 1969.

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