José María Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta (November 20, 1860 – December 27, 1931) was an

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and

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, who managed to be the only person to head the three powers of the State: Vice President of the Nation (President of the Senate), from October 12, 1904 to March 12, 1906, President of the Nation from that date and until October 12, 1910; and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Nation, from 1929 until his death in 1931.

Biography

Figueroa Alcorta was born in Córdoba as the son of José Figueroa and Teodosia Alcorta. He was elected a National Deputy for Córdoba before becoming Provincial Governor in 1895. In 1898 he returned to the

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as a

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. In 1904 he became Vice-President of Argentina. He was taken hostage in an unsuccessful February 1905 military coup attempt. In 1906, Figueroa Alcorta succeeded

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as President. He was an active Freemason.

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