Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera | |
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![]() Lima (right) in 1961 | |
Vice President of El Salvador | |
In office 1 July 1962 – 1 July 1967 | |
President | Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo |
Preceded by | Francisco José Guerrero and Salvador Ramírez Siliézar |
Succeeded by | Humberto Guillermo Cuestas |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 February 1917 San Salvador |
Political party | National Conciliation Party |
Education | Lawyer |
Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera was a lawyer and politician from El Salvador and former Vice President of El Salvador in the 1960s.
Lima was born on 13 February 1917,[1] in San Salvador.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3] In 1948 he chaired a commission called National Social Security Planning Council.[1]
Lima was appointed Salvadoran ambassador to United States in May 1961.[4] He was elected as Vice President of El Salvador in the 1962 elections, and served in the presidency of colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera.[1] In addition to vice presidency, he continued concurrently as ambassador to the United States until 1964, when he broke with president Rivera. He drafted an income tax law in 1964.[3]
In 1990s Lima was a professor of constitutional and administrative law.[5] He was the vice presidential candidate of FMLN–CD ticket in the 1994 presidential elections.[6] He was threatened by a group called Fuerza Nacionalista Mayor Roberto D’Aubuisson in 1996.[7]
In 2008, he was awarded a title of "Distinguished Jurist of El Salvador" by Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.[8] He died sometime before 2011.
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