Enrique Martínez (July 25, 1887 – February 20, 1938) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, governor of Córdoba Province Argentine Vice President during the second

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 ...

administration.

Biography

Martinez was born in Córdoba, and studied there until 1900, when he started his military service. He later studied law at the

National University of Córdoba The National University of Córdoba ( es, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,) is an institution of higher education in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Founded in 1613, the university is the oldest in Argentina, the third oldest university of t ...

, receiving a degree in 1911. Martinez was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1917 to fill the seat vacated by Vice President Elpidio González. He was elected Governor of Córdoba in December 1927, with José Antonio Ceballos as Vice-Governor, and took office on May 17, 1928. The death, on July 22, of Vice President-elect Francisco Beiró, prompted President-elect

to ask Martínez to take the late Francisco Beiró's place, and on October 12, 1928, he was inaugurated

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. Following a series of incidents organized against the populist Yrigoyen, on September 5, 1930, the President took a leave of health, and Martínez assumed the presidency on an acting basis. A coup d'état overthrew the Yrigoyen administration the following day, however, and both he and Martínez was jailed for two years. Martínez moved to

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in 1934, and retired from public life. While riding horseback in

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, Córdoba, in 1938, he suffered an accident, and died at age 51.

References

*''Historical Dictionary of Argentina''. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978. {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Enrique 1887 births 1938 deaths Politicians from Córdoba, Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent National University of Córdoba alumni Radical Civic Union politicians Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Vice presidents of Argentina Governors of Córdoba Province, Argentina Accidental deaths in Argentina