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 () is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the Chamber of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non- rotating) four-year terms.
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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
Barranquilla () is the capital district of the Atlántico department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean region of Colombia, Caribbean coast region; as of 2018, it had a popul ...
on 23 December 2021, at the age of 83.
Falleció en Barranquilla el exsenador Roberto Gerlein
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* Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala
* José Name Terán
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1938 births
2021 deaths
People from Barranquilla
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana alumni
20th-century Colombian lawyers
Colombian Conservative Party politicians
Governors of Atlántico Department
Ministers of economic development of Colombia
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
Members of the Senate of Colombia
Colombian anti-abortion activists
Colombian anti-communists
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