Carlos Humberto Perette (December 12, 1915 – June 18, 1992) was an
Argentine
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Radical Civic Union
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politician
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and
lawyer
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. He was a provincial legislator, national deputy, senator, Vice-President and ambassador.
Life and times
Perette was born in
Paraná, Entre Ríos
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and was educated at the
National University of the Littoral
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where he studied law.
In his youth, he was a
football
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er who played in the first division at
Estudiantes de Paraná
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. His brother
Francisco Perette would become President of the
Argentine Football Association
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(AFA).
Perette became involved with the Radical Party at a young age and in the late 1930s served first as President of the Youth Chapter of the Paraná
UCR, and later of
Entre Ríos Province
Entre Ríos (, "Between Rivers") is a central province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east.
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's chapter. In 1943 he was elected to the Entre Ríos legislature, in elections that were won by his party headed by
Eduardo Laurencena who was elected governor. Laurencena was prevented from taking office, however, by military intervention. Perette was elected a provincial deputy once again in 1946, a leading opponent of
Peronist
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governor
Hector Maya
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. Following his re-election in 1950, Perette served as President of the UCR bloc in the legislature.
In 1952 Perette was elected as a national deputy and headed the greatly reduced UCR bloc towards the end of the second term of
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Juan Domingo Perón
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. Perette was a leading 'unionist', the wing of his party which became the UCRP during the party's split ahead of the
1957 Constitutional Assembly elections. To Perette is attributed the ''Pueblo'' ('People') tag of the party, meant to differentiate from the opposing ideas of
Arturo Frondizi
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. Returning to the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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between 1958 and 1962, he was the Vice President of the UCRP bloc. In the subsequently annulled elections of 18 March 1962 Perette was decisively beaten for the governorship of his province by the UCRI ('Intransigent Radical') candidate.
In
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
, Perette was elected
Vice President of Argentina
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as the running mate for UCRP candidate
Arturo Illia
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Illia reached the ...
. Perette was an enthusiastic supporter of
co-operatives
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and introduced legislation to support them. He played a decisive role in the construction of the
Uranga-Begnis tunnel under the
Paraná River
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between the cities of Paraná and
Santa Fe, helping integrate the
Argentine Mesopotamia into the rest of the nation upon its 1969 opening.
Illia and Perette was removed during the coup of June 28, 1966. He continued to follow
Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín (29 July 1904 – 9 September 1981) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and ...
's style of Radicalism - the 'National Line' (''Línea Nacional'') - within the reunited UCR. He was elected to the
Argentine Senate
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in 1973 and headed the Radical bloc until 1976. Following the fall of the military government, Perette stood as the running mate of
Fernando De La Rua
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on the National Line slate in the internal selections for the 1983 Presidential elections, but they eventually withdrew their candidacy. The eventually successful Radical President
Raúl Alfonsín
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named Perette Ambassador to
Uruguay
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, serving between 1983 and 1989. He refused his vice-presidential and senatorial pensions in protest over the two coups that cut each of those terms short. Carlos Perette died in 1992.
External links
Biographical Dictionary of the UCR: Carlos Perette
{{DEFAULTSORT:Perette, Carlos Humberto
1915 births
1992 deaths
Vice presidents of Argentina
Members of the Argentine Senate for Entre Ríos
Radical Civic Union politicians
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Entre Ríos
Argentine diplomats
Ambassadors of Argentina to Uruguay
People from Entre Ríos Province
Argentine people of Italian descent
20th-century Argentine lawyers