Oscar Eduardo Alende (6 July 1909 – 22 December 1996) was an Argentine politician who founded the

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. Alende was born in Maipú, Buenos Aires Province. He studied medicine at the

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, where he led the student union, and completed his medical studies at the

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in 1933. He became head of gastro-intestinal surgery at Rawson Hospital, and a member of the Argentine Surgical Academy. He was co-founder of the Argentine Committee of Assistance to

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. In 1948 Alende became a provincial legislator in Buenos Aires Province for the Radical Civic Union (UCR), heading the UCR block from 1950. In 1952 he became a deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, serving until its dissolution in 1955. Alende had joined the breakaway

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(UCRI). In 1958 he was elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province and served until 1962. Alende became the leader of the UCRI following the 1962 overthrow of President

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(who broke with the party), and stood as UCRI candidate for president in the 1963 elections. In 1972 he founded the Intransigent Party, the military having banned the use of the name UCRI. He stood once again for president in

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on behalf of the Popular Revolutionary Alliance. After the return of democracy in

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, Alende became president of the Intransigent Party and stood again for president. He was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1985, and served in that capacity until his death in 1996.

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