- Eduardo Lonardi
Infobox_President | name=Eduardo Lonardi
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nationality=Argentine
order=31stPresident of Argentina
term_start=September 23 ,1955
term_end=November 12 ,1955
predecessor=Military junta (José Domingo Molina and others)
successor=Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
birth_date=September 15 ,1896
birth_place=Buenos Aires
death_date=March 22 ,1956
death_place=Buenos Aires
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party=none
vicepresident=Isaac Rojas
profession=Military Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet (1896-1956) was a former
de facto president ofArgentina who was in office fromSeptember 23 tillNovember 13 of 1955.Eduardo Lonardi, a
Catholic nationalist , assumed leadership of the "Revolución Libertadora junta" who overthrewJuan Perón onSeptember 16 ,1955 . He was greeted by chants of "Cristo Vence" ("Christ is Victorious") when arriving inBuenos 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-linerPedro Aramburu . Lonardi was appointed military attache to Santiago de Chile during the presidency of Dr D. Ramón Castillo, but little afterwardshe was declared "persona non grata" by the Chilean government on accusations of espionnage. He then was appointed military attache to Washington DC around 1946 where he stayed for a few years. "Lonardi was then given an attache post inWashington, DC , mostly to keep him away from the political infighting." This is a wrong statement. After his ousting by the Aramburu faction, he went to the US as a private citizen to receive cancer treatment, returned the next year (1956) and died.Lonardi died in Buenos Aires 22 March 1956, from ulcer complications.
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