Hipólito Yrigoyen
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Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthro
Yrigoyen, c. 1920s
Plaza Constitución railway station in 1920. Yrigoyen lived on the nearby Avenida Brasil until his death in 1933. Years later, his house was demolished to make way for the Arturo Frondizi Highway.
Ruins of Las Flores estancia, nearby one of Yrigoyen's properties
Plaque in the Constitución neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where Yrigoyen's house was located
Juan Perón
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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.
Hipólito Yrigoyen
…democratic government in the history of Argentina, with the clarification that the first completely democratic government was the second presidency of Juan Domingo Perón in 1951, when women were able to exercise their right to vote and be voted for. The first effects of the law were unexpected for the reformers: radicals…
Official portrait, 1948
Lt. Perón (left) and General José Uriburu (middle), with whose right-wing coup in 1930 he collaborated. Perón backed the more moderate General Agustín Justo, however.
Perón in 1940
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and his benefactor, Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.