Edgardo Seoane
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Edgardo Seoane Corrales (May 15, 1903 – May 25, 1978) was an engineer, agronomist and politician of Peru. He was Vice President of Peru during the first government of Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1963–1968)[1] and president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs from September to November 1967. He was also an ambassador in Mexico (1965–1967) and general secretary of the Popular Action party.
He was the son of Guillermo Alejandro Seoane Avellafuertes and Manuela Corrales Melgar, and brother of Manuel Seoane Corrales, who became an important APRA leader.[2] He studied at the Colegio Santa Rosa de Chosica, and then went to study at the National School of Agriculture, where he received a degree in agricultural engineering. He was elected as president of the Student association of Peru.
He began his career at Huayto hacienda, first as a surveyor, and then was promoted at the administrative level. As an administrator, he went to the Vilcahuaura hacienda (1930) and then to the Pucalá hacienda ( 1931–1948 ), where he carried out studies on the influence of irrigation on crops, as well as experiments in plant physiology. In the late 1940s he became the owner of the Mamape hacienda, in the Ferreñafe district, near Chiclayo. Using modern techniques, he increased the production of this farm, and simultaneously promoted regional agricultural development through the formation of a cooperative credit organization. He considered himself as a reformer who "rode on a steed or tractor, carving furrows of Peru's agrarian modernity."
