Victorino de la Plaza

Infobox_President
name=Victorino de la Plaza
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nationality=Argentine
order=18th President of Argentina
term_start=August 10, 1914
term_end=October 11, 1916
predecessor=Roque Sáenz Peña
successor=Hipólito Yrigoyen
birth_date=November 2, 1840
birth_place= Salta
death_date=death date and age|1919|10|2|1840|11|2
death_place= Buenos Aires
spouse=Ecilda Belvis Castellanos de la Plaza (1870-1875)
Emily Henry de la Plaza (1884-1919)
party=National Autonomist Party
vicepresident=
profession=Lawyer
order2=11th Vice President of Argentina
term_start2=October 12, 1910
term_end2=August 9, 1914
successor2=Pelagio Luna
predecessor2=José Figueroa Alcorta

Victorino de la Plaza y Palacios (November 2, 1840 - October 2, 1919) was President of Argentina from 9 August 1914 to 11 October 1916.

Second son of José Roque Mariano de la Plaza Elejalde and Manuela de la Silva Palacios; his older brother, Rafael de la Plaza, was also a politician and acted as governor of Santiago del Estero Province.

He studied law in Buenos Aires and obtained his doctorate in 1868. Was secretary of Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield and collaborated on the writing of the Argentine Civil Code. Was Treasury Minister under Nicolás Avellaneda (1876), later Interventor in Corrientes Province (1878) and Foreign Minister (1882) and Treasury (1883-1885) during the first Julio Argentino Roca administration. Was elected vicepresident for the National Union presided by Roque Sáenz Peña in 1910. He assumed the presidency after the death of Sáenz Peña and governed between 1914 and 1916. Died of pneumonia after retiring from politics.