José Evaristo Uriburu
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José Félix Evaristo de Uriburu y Álvarez de Arenales (19 November 1831 – 23 October 1914)<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> was President of Argentina from 23 January 1895 to 12 October 1898.
He was an adept diplomat; participating as arbiter on the peace negotiations on the War of the Pacific between Chile, Perú and Bolivia.
He was vice-president and became president of Argentina in 1895 when Luis Sáenz Peña resigned.
His son was José Evaristo Uriburu y Tezanos Pinto (1880–1956), Argentinian Ambassador in London in the 1920s, and father of Clarita de Uriburu, Cecil Beaton's model.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Work in office as president
- Reformed the National Constitution in 1898.
- Created the National Lottery (Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia).
- Created the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires.
- Created the Otto Krause Technical School.
Other offices held
- Federal Judge, Salta (1872–1874)
- National Deputy (lower house of Congress)
- House President (1876–1877)
- Justice Minister under Bartolomé Mitre for a short time (1867).
- Senator for the City of Buenos Aires (1901–1910)
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- 19th-century presidents of Argentina
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- Argentine people of Basque descent
- Ambassadors of Argentina to Chile
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- 19th-century Argentine lawyers
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- Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
- Presidents of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
- Provisional presidents of the Argentine Senate
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- Ministers of justice of Argentina
- Patrician families of Buenos Aires
- Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath