Pedro Goyena (July 24, 1843, Buenos Aires – May 17, 1892) was an

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jurist, politician and writer. Pedro Goyena, along with other thinkers and politicians, followers of the ''Catholic Thinking'', as

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and Emilio Lamarca. He completed his studies at the Colegio Nacional Central, then to the University to get a Law Degree. He made a mark in Argentine politics with his strong opposition to

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, which characterized the Generation of '80 that governed the country in the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th. He served a term as a member of the

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. He had a strong impact in the Pedagogical Congress of 1882 where he maintained the position that public education had to be Catholic having a strong argument with

Leandro Alem Leandro Nicéforo Alem (born Leandro Alén; 11 March 1841 – 1 July 1896) was an Argentine politician, founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. He was the uncle and political teacher of Hipólito Yrigoyen. He was also an active Freema ...

. He opposed Public Education Law #1420 of 1884, that established schooling for children being free, secular, and mandatory. He also opposed and represented the position of the Catholic thinkers against the Law of Civil matrimony of 1888, maintaining that the only type of marriage allowed should be the one performed and recognized by the Catholic Church. He was noted as a good orator. Goyena taught Roman law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and also worked as a journalist, writing among others for ''Revista Argentina'' and ''La Unión'', which he also edited with Estrada and Tristán Achával Rodríguez, where he defended his opposition to the liberal reforms of the government of the time, whose principal exponent was President

Julio A. Roca Alejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz (July 17, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was an army general and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 1880 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1904. Roca is the most important representative of the Generation ...

. In 1885 he was appointed First Vice president of the ''Catholic Union'', presided by José Manuel Estrada.La democracia cristiana argentina
Shortly before his death, and carried by his opposition to secular liberalism, he joined the

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opposition represented by the Unión Cívica. A street in the

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of Caballito in Buenos Aires is named after him.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goyena, Pedro 1843 births 1892 deaths Lawyers from Buenos Aires Argentine people of Basque descent Argentine Roman Catholics Civic Union (Argentina) politicians Members of the Buenos Aires Province Senate 19th-century Argentine lawyers Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery