Vicente Carmelo Gallo (October 3, 1873June 3, 1942) was an Argentine lawyer, academic, politician, and member of the Radical Civic Union and the Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union.

Life

Born in

San Miguel de Tucumán San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Argentina, ...

, Gallo joined the Radical Civic Union (UCR) from its inception, forming part of a group of young people who worked with

Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...

in the mid-1890s to secure universal male suffrage. Following the passage of the Sáenz Peña Law to that effect, he was elected to

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in 1912 on the UCR ticket, and to the Senate (1919-1923), always representing the city of

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. In 1920, Gallo was one of the founding members of the

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, a far-right paramilitary organization. President

Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (4 October 1868 – 23 March 1942), was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as president of Argentina between from 1922 to 1928. His period of government coincided precisely with the en ...

named Gallo Minister of Internal Affairs in 1923, and in 1924, he was part of a group of UCR members who broke with their longtime leader, the populist Yrigoyen, and formed the splinter Antipersonalist UCR. He resigned in 1926 when Alvear declined to support his proposal for a

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in Buenos Aires Province, where a moderate UCR figure, Valentín Vergara, had been elected governor.Walter, Richard. ''The Province of Buenos Aires and Argentine Politics. 1912-1943''. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Supported by conservatives since his attempted removal of Governor Vergara, he was the Anti-Personalist UCR candidate for Vice-President, as running mate to

Leopoldo Melo Leopoldo Melo (18691951) was an Argentine lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was a leading figure in the Radical Civic Union, a nominee for president, and later minister of the interior. Biography Leopoldo Melo was born in Diamante, Entre Río ...

, in the 1928 elections. Yrigoyen defeated their ticket in a landslide, however. Between 1934 and 1941 Gallo was Dean of the

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, where he was a professor in Administrative Law. He was married to Celia Gallo, the daughter of his uncle, politician

Delfín Gallo Delfín Gallo (November 25, 1845 – December 8, 1889) was an Argentine politician and journalist. He was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to a family with connections to the Tucumán oligarchy, and studied under Amédée Jacques at the Colegio ...

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* * 1873 births 1942 deaths People from San Miguel de Tucumán Radical Civic Union politicians Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Members of the Argentine Senate for Buenos Aires University of Buenos Aires alumni Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires Rectors of the University of Buenos Aires Ministers of Internal Affairs of Argentina {{Argentina-politician-stub