Alfredo Ramón Campos Calp (1880-1970). Military man, architect, teacher and historian.
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Alfredo Ramón Campos (1880-1970), Uruguayan military man, architect, politician, teacher and writer. Material and doctrinal builder of the Army of the 20th century. As a young man, he participated in the civil wars of 1897 and 1904. As an adult, he participated in the revolution of 1910 and then in the revolution of 1935. In 1935 he was president of the Uruguayan delegation to the Neutral Military Commission to solve what the League of Nations could not in the Chaco War. He became Minister of Defense in June 1938, avoiding the arrival of the Graf Spee to Montevideo and resigned a year and a half later due to lack of political support for the law of Compulsory Military Service. He assumed again the Ministry of Defense in 1942, culminating an important number of projects. In each military assignment he left us a regulation and a law. In each historical event in which he participated, he left us an account of the facts.
He embraced a second profession, secondary school teacher, Faculty of Mathematics and Architecture, founding member of the "Society of Architects of Uruguay" and juror of the main buildings of the country in the first half of the twentieth century. He built more than two hundred private and state works, made decorations and reforms, and above all built the buildings for troop housing in the National Army, extensions of the Military Hospital and the Spanish Sanatorium. The strength of his works means that they are still standing.
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Accepted for publication: February 2024.
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División Construcciones Militares. Instrucciones para el cuidado y conservación de los cuarteles y demás edificios militares. Montevideo : Imprenta del E.M.E., 1918.
Campos A. Observaciones sobre el alojamiento de las tropas y otros edificios militares efectuadas en algunos países americanos y europeos. Montevideo : Imprenta de la Escuela Militar, 1934, p. 89.
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