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Carlos Sanz de Santamaría
Carlos Sanz de Santamaría
	Official UN portrait of Carlos Sanz de Santamaría
18th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
	In office; 3 March 1982 – 2 May 1983
President	Belisario Betancur Cuartas
Preceded by	Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
Succeeded by	Carlos Albán Holguín
Minister of Finance and Public Credit
	In office; 5 September 1962 – 21 February 1964
President	Guillermo León Valencia
Preceded by	Virgilio Barco Vargas
Succeeded by	Diego Calle Restrepo
Colombia Ambassador to the United States
	In office; 1 April 1960 – 5 September 1962
President	Alberto Lleras Camargo
Preceded by	José Gutiérrez Gómez
Succeeded by	Eduardo Uribe Botero
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 11 May 1957 – 7 August 1958
President	Gabriel París Gordillo
Preceded by	José Manuel Rivas Sacconi
Succeeded by	Julio César Turbay Ayala
Minister of War
	In office; 11 December 1946 – 23 April 1947
President	Mariano Ospina Pérez
Preceded by	Luis Tamayo
Succeeded by	Fabio Lozano y Lozano
6th Colombia Ambassador to the United States
	In office; 12 September 1945 – 11 December 1946
President	Alberto Lleras Camargo
Preceded by	Gabriel Turbay Abunader
Succeeded by	Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo
26th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
	In office; 9 April 1945 – 13 August 1945
President	Alfonso López Pumarejo
Preceded by	Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
Succeeded by	Francisco de Paula Pérez
Minister of National Economy
	In office; 6 March 1944 – 9 April 1945
President	Darío Echandía Olaya
Preceded by	Moisés Prieto
Succeeded by	Luis Tamayo
Mayor of Bogotá
	In office; August 1942 – 6 March 1944
President	Alfonso López Pumarejo
Preceded by	Julio Pardo Dávila
Succeeded by	Jorge Soto del Corral
Personal details
Born	23 April 1905; Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died	5 November 1992 (aged 87); Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Dolores "Lola" Londoño
Children	Alberto Sanz Londoño; Guillermo Sanz Londoño; Inés Elvira Sanz Londoño
Alma mater	National University of Colombia; École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Profession	Hydraulic Engineer

Carlos Sanz de Santamaría (23 April 1905 – 5 November 1992)^[1] was the 18th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and twice served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States; he also served as the Chairman of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress, the precursor of the Organization of American States.^[2] A Colombian civil engineer by training, he gained national acclaim for his work in the constructions of the aqueducts of Santa Marta, Riohacha, and Buenaventura, and the Vitelma Water Treatment Plant in Bogotá, and was hoisted to the national stage for his endeavours first as Mayor of Bogotá and then went on to occupy different executive ministries including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War, and serving as the 9th Minister of National Economy and the 26th and 41st Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia.^[3]^[4]

Background

He graduated from the National University of Colombia in 1928 with a bachelor in civil engineering, and moved to France to study at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he received his master's in hydraulic engineering in 1929. He was an associate member of the Societé des Ingenieurs Civiles de France (Engineer Society of France) since 1930, and a member of the Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros (Colombian Engineer Society) since 1932, of which it served twice as President.^[5]^[6]

Selected works

Sanz de Santamaría, Carlos (1978). Fin del asilo del Doctor Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 1954 [The End of the Asylum of Doctor Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 1954] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Fundación Centenario del Banco de Colombia. OCLC 5814196. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
Sanz de Santamaría, Carlos (1965). Una época difícil [a Difficult Time]. Colección Aventura del desarrollo (in Spanish). Bogotá: Ediciones Tercer Mundo. OCLC 1343227.

References

^ "Falleció el Ex Ministro Carlos Sanz de Santamaría" [Former Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaría Dies]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1992-11-06. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
^ "The Alianza: Top Man in the Clearinghouse". Time. 1967-02-04. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
^ "Falleció el Ex Ministro Carlos Sanz de Santamaría" [Former Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaría Dies]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1992-11-06. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
^ González Díaz, Andrés (1982). "Alberto Lleras Camargo". Ministros del siglo XX, Vol. 2 [Minister of the 20th Century, Vol, 2] (in Spanish). Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
^ "Solicitud de Promocion a Socio de Numero". Anales de ingeniería (in Spanish). 43. Bogotá: Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros: 160. ISSN 0120-0429. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
^ "Presidentes de la Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros" [Presidents of the Colombian Society of Engineers] (in Spanish). Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros. 2011-01-07.^{[permanent dead link‍]}