Draft:Elías Lozada Benavente

Elías Lozada Benavente, (Arequipa, 18 July 1897- Lima, 30 August 1987) was a, Peruvian lawyer, politican, writer, and the founder of the Social Nationalist Party (Partido Social Nacionalista). He served as the Minister of Justice (1931), the Constituent Deputy for Arequipa (1931-1936), the Minister of Development and Public Works (1932), and as Senator for Arequipa (1939-1945).

Life
The son of Hermógenes Lozada, from the Cayman Islands, and Aurora Benavente, Benavente was born in the Arequipa District of Peru. He started his studies in his city of birth and ended them in Lima, where he graduated with a Bachelors and Doctorate in Law at the National University of San Marcos (1920).

On the first of September 1930, he founded the moderate Social Nationalist Party (Partido Social Nacionalista).

He was asked to join the Governing Board headed by Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, as the Minister of Justice and Instruction, a position he held from February to March of 1931, until the board was dissolved.

He was elected Deputy of Arequipa in the Constituent Congress (1931-1936). As the leader of a minority party, the Social Nationalist Party, he supported the Congress under the constitutional government of Sánchez Cerro.

On January 29th 1932, he became a member of the second ministerial cabinet of the Sánchez Cerro government as the Minister of Development and Public Works. Along with his colleagues Carlos Sayán Álvarez (Minister of Justice and Instruction) and Luis A. Flores (Minister of Government), he was among the youngest ministers within Peruvian government to that date. He remained in this role until the 19th of May that year.

In 1939 he was elected senator of Arequipa (1939-1945). He presented the bill which established national awards for the promotion of culture (Law 9614).

Published Works

 * Simón Rodríguez (1919), a historical essay.
 * Mi homenaje a Arequipa (1940), a historical essay.
 * Criminología (1920)
 * Policía judicial científica (1921)
 * Código de menores (1945)
 * Partido Social Nacionalista (1935)
 * Nuestro Partido (1944)
 * Dos dictaduras (1933)
 * Vaivenes de la política (1938), which contains descriptions of Luis Sánchez Cerro.
 * Leyendas amazónicas (1948)
 * Discursos (1945)
 * Tramontando. Ideario íntimo (1965).

Biographies

 * Basadre Grohmann, Jorge: Historia de la República del Perú (1822 - 1933), Tomo 15. Editada por la Empresa Editora El Comercio S. A. Lima, 2005. ISBN 9972-205-77-0 (V.15)
 * Tauro del Pino, Alberto: Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Tercera Edición. Tomo 10. Lima, PEISA, 2001. ISBN 9972-40-159-6