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Enrique Andreoli (Biography)
| Biography of Enrique Andreoli written by William Belmont Parker |
| From Uruguayans of to-day ~ The Hispanic Society of America, 1921 |
L. Enrique Andreoli, the son of Enrique Andreoli and Julia Vidart, was born at Montevideo on the first of July, 1881. While still a very young man, he entered the arena of metropolitan journalism and became associated with the staffs of various daily papers, among them La Democracia and El Siglo. In 1905 he also edited the Revista Comercial. He was one of the charter-members of the Press Club and occupied on its committee of control, in successive periods, the offices of Secretary, Vice-President, and Member of the Tribunal of Honour.
His political affiliations are with the National Party. He has served as a member of three legislatures, occupying a seat in the House of Representatives, and also took part in the General Constitutional Assembly. In 1905 he joined the Young Men's League presided over by Carlos Roxlo, and in 1907 he was made a titular member of the Electoral Board of Montevideo. He was a member of the Convention in various periods for the Departments of Colonia, Río Negro, Artigas and Montevideo; on several occasions he served as delegate to the Electoral Congress of Deputies and Boards. He was a leading figure in the organization of the Argentine-Uruguayan Assembly which was brought about in 1906, and also in that one which was inaugurated by the Radical Party in Argentina.
He took a prominent part in the successful campaign against the law proposed in the Chamber of Deputies, in 1912, for restraining the liberty of the Press. He was secretary of the University Committee to celebrate the centenary of the battle of Las Piedras. He is a Director of the Society of Mutual Aid; member of the Uruguayan Commission for erecting a monument to Francisco Pi y Margall, presided over by Dr. Súñer y Capdevilla; was promoter and organizer of the testimonial presented to President Roque Sáenz Peña, in appreciation of his patriotism in defence of electoral freedom; and organizer of the great national meeting of the twenty-fifth of August, 1911, in which the armed forces of England, Argentina, and Brazil participated. He took an active share in the organization and unification of the Uruguayan Nationalist Party, was a member of the commission for the wounded in the revolutionary movement in 1910, and a member of the National Board for Subsistence which met in 1908.
Señor Andreoli has contributed to many foreign papers, including La Prensa, of Buenos Aires, and to a number of literary reviews. He has acted as President of the Journalistic Committee of Propaganda, also of the Uruguayan League against Tuberculosis; he is a member of the governing board of the National Club, of various committees for civic propaganda, and of the National Aviation Committee; he is Honorary President of many political clubs both in Montevideo and in the interior of the country.
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