Pedro Cosio Masden

Pedro Cosio Masden
Minister of Public Works of Uruguay
In office
1913–1916
President José Batlle y Ordóñez
Uruguayan Ambassador to Spain
In office
October 18, 1916 – 1916
President Feliciano Viera
Preceded by Eduardo Vázquez
Succeeded by Benjamín Fernández y Medina
Uruguayan Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1917–1918
President Feliciano Viera
Preceded by Federico Vidiella
Succeeded by Antonio Bachini
Ambassador of Uruguay to the United States
In office
November 21, 1918 – February, 1919
President Feliciano Viera
Preceded by Hugo V. de Pena
Succeeded by Jacobo Varela
Uruguayan Ambassador to Germany
In office
1927–1932
President Juan Campisteguy
Preceded by Antonio Bachini
Succeeded by Enrique Buero
Uruguayan Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1932–1933
President Gabriel Terra
Preceded by Federico Vidiella
Succeeded by Alberto Guani
List of Ministers of Economics and Finance (Uruguay)
In office
1933–1934
President Gabriel Terra
Personal details
Born (1873-10-03)October 3, 1873
Montevideo
Died August 25, 1943(1943-08-25) (aged 69)
Nationality Uruguayan
Parents Angela Masden and Domingo Cosio
Alma mater studied Accounting at the National Colegio of the Patriotic League of Instruction.

Pedro Cosio Masden was a Uruguayan politician and diplomat.

Biography

  • He entered a career at the Customs service.
  • He became Assistant in the Custom House Service, Inspector of Frontiers, and Sub-Treasurer General, commissioned especially by the Government to make studies on inland and river Custom Houses.
  • From March, 1919 to 1923 he was elected National Counsellor in the Senate of Uruguay.
  • In 1915 he presided over the Uruguayan delegation sent to the First Financial Conference at Washington.
  • In April, 1916 he led the Uruguayan Commission to the first Commission meeting in Buenos Aires of the first Pan American Financial Conference in 1915 called to study the question of uniform legislation.[3]
  • From 1921 to 1923 he was editor of El Siglo (Uruguay) and collaborator on El Día (Uruguay), El Diario Nuevo, and La Mañana of Montevideo, and La Nación of Buenos Aires.[4]

Publications

  • Two volumes of official reports dealing with Custom House questions;
  • Tarifas de aduana y tratados de comercio, a pamphlet;
  • Post-War Organisation of Labour in the United Kingdom, a pamphlet in English; * La conversion y los problemas del credito, a pamphlet.
  • Regimen bancario ; Ensayos Politicos, 1897.
  • El doctor Rene, a novel, 1903.
  • Accidentes del trabajo, 1908.
  • La proteccion industrial y la Jornada de ocho horas, 1908.
  • Tarifas de aduana, 1910.
  • La ensenanza profesional, 1910.
  • El poder ejecutivo colegiado, 1915.

References

  1. ↑ Ministro Plenipotenciario en España y Portugal Nómbrase a don Pedro Cosio Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Montevideo. 18 de Octubre de 1916. Hallándose vacante la Legación del Uruguay en España, y vista la conformidad prestada por el Honorable Senado con fecha 18 del corriente. El Presidente de la República ACUERDA Y DECRETA: Artículo 1." Nómbrase Enviado Extraordinario y Ministro Plenipotenciario en España y Portugal al señor don Pedro Cosio. see Memoria 1918, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Uruguay, presentada á la honorable Asamblea general page 295
  2. ↑ rulers.org
  3. ↑ Uruguayans of Today 1921, p. 169
  4. ↑ En la Dirección de "El Siglo" En el año 1920 Cosio fué llamado a desempeñar la dirección de "El Siglo", diario ... see: Vida y obra de Pedro Cosío, 1937, p.78


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