Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear

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Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
President of Argentina
In office 12 October 1922 – 12 October 1928
Vice President	Elpidio González
Preceded by	Hipólito Yrigoyen
Succeeded by	Hipólito Yrigoyen
President of the Radical Civic Union National Committee
In office December 1931 – 23 March 1942
Preceded by	José María Martinez
Succeeded by	Gabriel Oddone
Personal details
Born	Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (1868-10-04)4 October 1868 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	23 March 1942(1942-03-23) (aged 73) Don Torcuato, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting place	La Recoleta Cemetery Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Radical Civic Union
Spouse	Regina Pacini
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires
Profession	Lawyer
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Military service
Allegiance	Argentina
Branch/service	Argentine Army
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear's voice Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear in the province of Mendoza (recorded 1926)

Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (4 October 1868 – 23 March 1942), was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as president of Argentina between from 1922 to 1928.

His period of government coincided precisely with the end of the postwar world crisis, which allowed him to improve the economy and finances of the country without major setbacks. He also stood out in the development of the automotive industry and the successful oil exploitation, with which he achieved an economic prosperity unknown until then for Argentina, and that was demonstrated with the great increase achieved in the GDP per inhabitant, whose index for the In 1928 he had reached the sixth position among the highest in the world. In the labor and social sphere, this period was characterized by a process of urban concentration in the Litoral and Greater Buenos Aires, in addition to the establishment of half a million immigrants; there was an increase in the middle class, a rise in real wages, and a decrease in strikes and similar conflicts.^[1]

When he left the presidency he settled in France. He returned to the country a few years later to reunify his party and try to become president for the second time in 1931, but his candidacy was prohibited by the military regime of José Félix Uriburu. Alvear, along with other radical coreligionists, was persecuted, imprisoned or had to go into exile on repeated occasions by the repressive regime of the infamous decade, for which he experienced the Martín García prison on the island.

On 23 March 1942 struck down by a heart attack, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear died next to his wife Regina Pacini at their home in Don Torcuato.