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Robert Turgot Brinsmade (1913–1994) was an American international lawyer who, among other things, practiced law in Caracas, Mexico City, New York, and Houston.

Career
Brinsmade, in 1948, admitted that he collaborated in the overthrow of Acción Democrática, the Venezuelan political party that governed from 1945 to 1948, when it ended by a coup d'état. He believed that Rómulo Betancourt, who became president in 1945 by coup d'état, and Acción Democrática, intended to set up a Marxist form of government in Venezuela by force of arms, if necessary, and justified his actions, and indicated that his actions had the support of the U.S. government. Brinsmade was roundly informed by Ambassador Walter J. Donnelly in 1948 that he had damaged long-standing U.S. interests by compromising its reputation for neutrality and abstention from political activities. The U.S. Department of State expressed "strong disapproval" of his involvement.
 * 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état

On May 11, 1961, Robert Turgot Brinsmade (né Robert Turgot Brinsmade; 1913–1994), an American international lawyer, purchased La Prensa and announced that he would restore it to a daily publication. Ed Castillo, who had been the managing editor since November 1959, remained in that role. Brinsmade remained owner and publisher of La Prensa until its demise in 1963.
 * 1961 purchase of La Prensa

The last issue of La Prensa, by then a bilingual tabloid, was published on January 31, 1963, just two weeks short of the paper's fiftieth anniversary. In a final blow, the Internal Revenue Service seized La Prensa's assets for back taxes and sold them at auction March 28, 1963.
 * Final issue and liquidation of La Prensa

Career

 * Brinsmade's bio


 * International lawyer
 * AB in economics, summa cum laude, University of Texas at Austin, 1934
 * MA in economics, University of Texas at Austin, 1934
 * LLB, University of Texas at Austin, 1937
 * JD, University of Texas at Austin, 1937
 * MPA, National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, 1936
 * DCL, University of Mexico, 1938
 * DCL, University of Venezuela, 1943
 * Proprietor of the law firm, Robert Turgot Brinsmade and Assos., NYC, Houston and Mexico City, 1958–1976
 * President, Promotora Nacional de Industrias, 1942–1958
 * President, La Calle Daily, La Calle Pub. Co., 1952–1958
 * President, National Petroleum Co. Venezuela, 1947–1958
 * President, Claycraft, Tricontinental, 1948–1958
 * President, Milprint de Venezuela, S.A. 1947–1958
 * President, Industrias Unidas, 1948–1958
 * Senior partner firm Brinsmade, Calcaño and Vallenilla, New York City, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Bogota, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires, 1945–1950
 * Partner Venezuelan office firm Schuster, Feuille & Brinsmade, New York City, 1940–1945
 * Partner firm, Basham, Ringe and Brinsmade, Mexico City 1938–1940
 * Director, Euro American Energy Corp., S.A.
 * Roman Catholic
 * American Society of International Law

In March 1962, Brinsmade ran into swindling charges over checks he had written against insufficient funds to La Prensa's printer, American Printers, Inc., of which James Fleming Moseley, Sr. (1921–1988), was business manager.

Selected publications

 * R. T. Brinsmade; El Derecho. Internacional y la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia (pp. 271-285)
 * R. T. Brinsmade, "Análisis de nuestra situación petrolera," El Petróleo, February 1950, pps. 6–7
 * "The effect of the agrarian reforms upon the peon in San Luis Potosi" (masters thesis), University of Texas Press (1934);

Family
His father, Robert Bruce Brinsmade, PhD (1873–1936), was an American mining engineer, who through his work in mining, became a labor rights advocate and exponent of the economist Henry George. Robert Turgot Brinsmade's maternal uncle, Harry Steenbock, PhD (1886–1967), was a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, inventor, and one of the discoverers of vitamins D, A and B.

Robert Turgot Brinsmade married three times. He was a widower from his 1939 marriage to Mollye Catherine Johnson (maiden; 1920–1952) and a 1955 divorcee from his 1953 marriage to Ruth Elizabeth Ericsson (maiden; born 1914) — who had been, in 1941, selected in New York by John Robert Powers to be a Miss Subways model, which drew 258 marriage proposals, all of which she rejected. In 1961, he married Suzanne Joy Metz (maiden; born 1934) in Mexico City after having spent time in Caracas, Venezuela, as owner and publisher of the newspaper La Calle ("The Street"). Brinsgate and his wife settled in Houston. He had been a founding shareholder in 1948 in Sivensa (Siderúrgica Venezolana, S.A.), a Venezuelan steel company.