Nicolás Avellaneda
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Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva was an Argentine politician and journalist, and President of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. Avellaneda's main projects while in office were banking and education
Nicolás Avellaneda 1910
Nicolás Avellaneda.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argenti
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…to Buenos Aires in 1857, becoming director of the El Nacional and editor of El Comercio de la Plata. He finished his studies at Buenos Aires, meeting Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Sarmiento helped him to become teacher of economy at the University of Buenos Aires. He wrote "Estudio sobre las leyes de tierras públicas" (Spanish…
Portrait, c. 1874
Façade of Sarmiento's childhood home in San Juan, Argentina.
1845 portrait of Sarmiento during his exile in Chile, by Franklin Rawson.
Sarmiento portrayed by Ignacio Baz.