Lisandro de la Torre | |
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| National Senator | |
| In office 20 February 1920 – 5 January 1937 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 29 April 1922 – 29 April 1926 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
| In office 29 April 1912 – 29 April 1916 | |
| Constituency | Santa Fe |
| Provincial Deputy of Santa Fe | |
| In office 27 March 1911 – 1 June 1912 | |
| Constituency | San Lorenzo Department |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 December 1868 Rosario, Argentina |
| Died | 5 January 1939 (aged 70) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Cause of death | Suicide by firearm |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union (1891–1897) Democratic Progressive Party (1914–1939) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
Lisandro de la Torre (6 December 1868 – 5 January 1939) was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, Santa Fe. He was considered as a model of ethics in politics. He was a national deputy and senator, a prominent polemicist, and founder of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1914. He ran twice for the office of President, in 1916 and in 1931.[1]
De la Torre became a lawyer in 1890. His thesis about municipalities and communes, as well as other works of his, gave rise to the idea of municipal autonomy in Argentina, which was included in the Argentine Constitution in the 1994 reform. In 1898 he founded the newspaper La República ("The Republic") in Rosario.
- ^ "A 80 años del suicidio de Lisandro de la Torre". La Nación. 5 January 2019.