Luis Sáenz Peña: Difference between revisions

| name = '''Luis Sáenz -Peña'''

| image = Sin título8LSaenzpeña.jpg

| nationality = {{ARGflagu|Argentina|name=Argentina|size=23px}}

| order office = [[President of Argentina]]

| term_startorder = October 12, 1892 = 12th

| term_end term_start = January12 23,October 18951892

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1822|4|2|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|12|4|1822|4|2|df=yes}}

| spouse = Cipriana Lahittedu BonavíaCos de La Hitte

| birth_name = Luis Sáenz -Peña Davilay Dávila

| term_start1 = May 1, May 1875

| term_end1 = May 1, May 1878

| governor1 = [[Carlos Casares (gobernadorgovernor)|Carlos Casares]]

| term_start3 = April 25, April 1874

| term_end3 = April 25, April 1875

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He graduated in law from the [[University of Buenos Aires]], and participated in the constitutional assembly of 1860. He was a number of times a national deputy and senator. In 1882, he occupied a seat on the Supreme Court of the [[Province of Buenos Aires]]. Later he was employed as president of the Provincial Bank, director of the Academy of Jurisprudence, and had a seat in the General Council of Education.

On November 18, November 1848, he married [[Cipriana Lahitte]]du Cos de La Hitte (born 6 December 1829, Montevideo, Uruguay - died 23 October 1916) in the Church of SanSaint IgnacioIgnatius, in Buenos Aires.

=== Political office ===

In 1882, he served as a member of the Supreme Court of the Province of Buenos Aires. Later, he served as president of the Bank of the [[Buenos Aires Province|Province of Buenos Aires]]. He was also several times a national deputy and senator.

== Presidency ==

On 12 October 1892, Sáenz -Peña was inaugurated president of the country. He began his mandate convinced that his mission was to finish getting out of the [[Baring crisis|Panic of 1890]]. He decided not to contract new debts, and personally renegotiated the existing ones in [[London]]: the financial situation forced the bankers to accept the conditions imposed by the Minister of Finance , [[Juan José Romero]], who got some cuts in the capital and a somewhat longer term. By mid-1893, the crisis could be considered over.

During his tenure, the Ministry of Public Works managed to expand the railway network, to the point that all provincial capitals —except— except [[La Rioja, Argentina|La Rioja]] — were linked by rails. The cities of [[Buenos Aires]], [[Rosario, Santa Fe|Rosario]] and [[Santa Fe, Argentina|Santa Fe]] finished their ports, and the capital opened the [[Avenida de Mayo]], which for more than half a century would be the show window of the great city.

=== Revolution and resignation ===

In 1895, the political situation became more unstable every day, due to the evident incapacity of the president; Sáenz -Peña changed his entire cabinet of ministers several times, unsuccessfully seeking to avoid journalistic criticism.

[[File:LuisSaenzPeña.JPG|left|thumb|273x273px|image of Luis Sáenz -Peña.]]

The situation spread to the interior provinces, where on several occasions the governments were overthrown, thus increasing instability. Sáenz -Peña, increasingly disoriented, tried all possible alliances, and finally - before the imminence of a radical revolution - appointed [[Aristóbulo del Valle]] Minister of War and Navy. This convinced him to disarm the National Guards, with the apparent aim of avoiding new revolutions, but a few days later the [[Argentine Revolution of 1893|radical revolution]] broke out.

Sáenz -Peña no longer controlled his ministers, who ruled according to [[Julio Argentino Roca|Roca]] and [[Carlos Pellegrini|Pellegrini]]'s instructions. In mid-January 1895, all of them submitted their resignations en masse. Sáenz -Peña submitted his resignation on January 22 January, which was received with relief by public opinion. The government passed into the hands of [[José Evaristo Uriburu]], who completed the term ending in 1898.

== Death ==

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