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Luis Bedoya Reyes

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Peruvian politician (1919–2021)

In thisSpanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bedoya and the second or maternal family name is Reyes.

Luis Bedoya Reyes
Bedoya in 2019

Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office 28 July 1978 – 26 July 1980
Constituency	National
Mayor of Lima
In office 1 January 1964 – 31 December 1969
Preceded by	Anita Fernandini de Naranjo
Succeeded by	Eduardo Dibós Chappuis
Minister of Justice and Worship of Peru
In office 28 July 1963 – 31 December 1963
President	Fernando Belaúnde
Prime Minister	Julio Óscar Trelles Montes
Preceded by	Juan Orrego Aguinaga
Succeeded by	Emilio Llosa Ricketts
President of the Christian People's Party Founding President (Honorary Title)
In office 18 December 1966 – 18 December 1999
Preceded by	Party founded
Succeeded by	Ántero Flores Aráoz (President)

Personal details
Born	(1919-02-20)20 February 1919 Callao,Peru
Died	18 March 2021(2021-03-18) (aged 102) Lima,Peru
Political party	Christian People's Party
Spouse	María Laura de Vivanco Sotomayor
Children	Laura Bedoya de Vivanco Rosario Bedoya de Vivanco Luis Bedoya de Vivanco [es] Javier Bedoya de Vivanco Pedro Antonio Bedoya de Vivanco Marisol Bedoya de Vivanco Roxana Bedoya de Vivanco
Parents	Jacinto Bedoya Falconí (father) Luz Reyes de la Torre (mother)
Relatives	Javier Bedoya Denegri (grandson) Jaime Bedoya Delboy (cousin) Santiago Bedoya Pardo (grand-nephew)

Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes (20 February 1919 – 18 March 2021) was a PeruvianChristian Democrat (PDC) andChristian People's Party (PPC) politician who served as theMayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969.^[1] He was also aMinister of Justice, member of the Peruvian Congress, and ran unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency two times. He was the founder of theChristian People's Party (PPC).^[2] He was the father ofJavier Bedoya, a former congressman and deputy, andLuis Bedoya de Vivanco [es], former mayor ofMiraflores.

Biography

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Bedoya (right) in 2015 with his son and his grandson.

He was born in Callao, on 20 February 1919, the son of Jacinto Bedoya Falconí and Luz Reyes de la Torre.^[3] He attended high school at theCollege of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where he stood out for his love of basketball.

He entered the Faculty of Letters of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos with high qualifications, after which he went on to the Faculty of Law of the same university, a career in which he would graduate in 1942.

He married María Laura de Vivanco Sotomayor, with whom he had seven children: Luis Guillermo (†), Javier Alonso, Laura, María del Rosario, Pedro Antonio, Marisol (†) and Roxana. His son,Javier Bedoya de Vivanco was a Congressman of the Republic from 2006 to 2016, and his grandson,Javier Bedoya Denegri, was Lieutenant Mayor of San Isidro from 2015 to 2018.

Retired from politics since 1999, he served as counselor of the Bedoya Law Firm (Estudio Bedoya Abogados). Heturned 100 in February 2019, and died in March 2021 at the age of 102.^[4]