Roberto Víctor Gerlein Echeverría (18 November 1938 – 23 December 2021) was a Colombian lawyer and politician. A
Conservative party politician, he was the longest-serving and most senior Member of the
Senate of Colombia
The Senate of the Republic of Colombia ( es, Senado de la República de Colombia) is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the House of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non ...
having been first elected in 1974. During his long political career, he served also as a Member of the
Chamber of Representatives (1968–1974), as the 10th
Colombian Minister of Economic Development, and as the 42nd
Governor of Atlántico. He died in Barranquilla on 23 December 2021, at the age of 83.
Falleció en Barranquilla el exsenador Roberto Gerlein
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*Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala
Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala (born 5 October 1937) is a Senator of Colombia serving his fifth term in Congress, albeit not all consecutively. He is the founder of .
Family
Fuad was the son of Ricardo Char Zaslawy, an immigrant from Lebanon who ar ...
*José Name Terán
José Antonio Name Terán (5 February 1936 – 5 September 2011) was a lawyer and former Senator of Colombia. Considered a Liberal caudillo, he was one of the longest serving senators in Congress and one of the most influential politicians of th ...
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1938 births
2021 deaths
People from Barranquilla
Pontifical Xavierian University alumni
20th-century Colombian lawyers
Colombian Conservative Party politicians
Governors of Atlántico Department
Colombian Ministers of Economic Development
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
Members of the Senate of Colombia
Colombian anti-abortion activists
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