Eduardo Lonardi

Eduardo Lonardi
30th President of Argentina De facto
In office September 23, 1955 – November 12, 1955
Vice President	Isaac Rojas
Preceded by	Military junta (José Domingo Molina and others)
Succeeded by	Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
Personal details
Born	September 15, 1896(1896-09-15) Buenos Aires
Died	March 22, 1956(1956-03-22) (aged 59) Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentine
Political party	none
Profession	Military

Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet (September 15, 1896 – March 22, 1956) served as de facto president of Argentina from September 23, 1955 until November 13, 1955.

Biography

He was born on September 15, 1896.

Lonardi was appointed military attache to Chile during the presidency of Ramón Castillo 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 nationalist, assumed leadership of the Revolución Libertadora junta who overthrew Juan Perón on September 16, 1955. He was greeted by chants of Cristo Vence ("Christ is Victorious") when arriving in Buenos Aires. Favoring a transition with "neither victors nor vanquished", his conciliatory approach was deemed too soft by the liberal 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.

References

Preceded by José Gómez

President of Argentina 1955

Succeeded by Pedro Eugenio Aramburu