Word: ordonez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batlle is Uruguay's most honored name. Jose Batlle y Ordonez, as President in 1907, astounded Uruguay, and set the democratic pattern that has prevailed ever since, by peaceably turninsr over office to his elected successor. The great man favored his nephew Luis over his own sons, and passed along to Luis the political know-how that made him a Congressman at 25. In 1946, before Uruguay's 1951 adoption of a council as its executive, he was elected Vice President, gaining the top office (and the nickname "Trumancito") when the President died a year later...