Biography of Marco Antonio Batres
He was born in Gracias (1902) and died in Tegucigalpa (1984). He was a lawyer and politician. He pursued his higher education at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, and graduated as a Lawyer in 1927.
He served as a Judge, Deputy, Secretary of the National Constituent Assembly in 1936, and was a member of the Commission that drafted the Preliminary Draft of the Constitution that was enacted that year. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, Attorney General of Finance, and Minister of Finance in the Gálvez Administration. He also served as a Plenipotentiary Minister in El Salvador and Nicaragua and was a member of the Boundary Commission.
He was a Delegate of Honduras to the United Nations and represented Honduras at the Tenth Inter-American Conference held in Bogotá in 1948, where he assumed the Presidency of that event during the tragic events of the Bogotazo. He also served as Secretary of the National University.
