Antonio Marchesano (politician)

Marchesano was born in Montevideo in 1930. A man of the Colorado Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1966. During the last years of the civic-military dictatorship he supported Julio María Sanguinetti, who was elected president in November 1984; then, Marchesano was once again elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In February 1985 he assumed as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay.^[2] Later, in April 1986, he was appointed Interior Minister.^[3] He died in Montevideo on January 24, 2019.