Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet (September 15, 1896 – March 22, 1956) served as de facto

De facto

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 president of Argentina

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 from September 23, 1955 until November 13, 1955.

Biography

He was born on September 15, 1896.

Lonardi was appointed military attache

Military attaché

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 to Chile

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 during the presidency of Ramón Castillo

Ramón Castillo

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 around 1944, but little afterwards he was declared "persona non grata" by the Chilean government on accusations of espionage. He then was appointed military attache to Washington, DC around 1946 where he stayed for a few years. He then returned to Argentina.

Eduardo Lonardi, a Catholic

Catholic

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 nationalist, assumed leadership of the Revolución Libertadora

Revolución Libertadora

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 junta who overthrew Juan Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

 on September 16, 1955. He was greeted by chants of Cristo Vence ("Christ is Victorious") when arriving in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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. Favoring a transition with "neither victors nor vanquished", his conciliatory approach was deemed too soft by the liberal

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 faction of the armed forces, who deposed him less than two months into his de-facto presidency and replaced him with hard-liner Pedro Aramburu.

He went to the United States to receive cancer treatment. He returned to Argentine and died on 22 March 1956 from cancer.