Biografia de alfonso lopez michelsen

24th President of Colombia

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal family name is Michelsen.

Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June – 11 July ) was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 24thPresident of Colombia from to He was nicknamed "El Pollo" (The Chicken), a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.^{[citation needed]}

Early years

López was the son of former two-time president of Colombia, Alfonso López Pumarejo and his first wife María Michelsen Lombana, who was of Danish descent.

Biografia de alfonso lopez michelsen

He was born and raised in Bogotá. He studied at the Gimnasio Moderno School and later in other cities: Paris, Brussels, London and Santiago de Chile. He graduated with a degree in law from the Universidad del Rosario.

During his father's presidency, López maintained a low profile in politics and instead focused on becoming a university professor at the Universidad