Alejandro Gómez (Vice President)
| Alejandro Gómez | |
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| Vice President of Argentina | |
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In office May 1, 1958 – November 18, 1958 |
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| President | Arturo Frondizi |
| Preceded by | Isaac Rojas |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Perette |
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| Born | April 4, 1908 Rosario |
| Died | February 6, 2005 (aged 96) Las Tapias, Córdoba |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party |
UCR UCRI (1956–58) |
| Spouse(s) | María Celia Cabos |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Alejandro Gómez (April 4, 1908 – February 6, 2005) was an Argentine educator and lawyer who served as the Vice President of Argentina.
Gómez was born in Rosario. His father was a telegraph operator for the local rail line, and the family relocated to numerous towns within Santa Fe Province. They eventually settled in rural Berabevú, where the young man became a school teacher. His vocal support of the centrist UCR, which had been elected to power in Argentina in 1916, cost Gómez his post upon the 1930 military coup against President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
Gómez, however, did not abandon his teaching profession, and he established the Workers' in Rosario, which he operated in a clandestine manner during the authoritarian Concordance regime that followed. Gómez met María Celia Cabos, and they were married in 1936. He enrolled at the Rosario campus of the National University of the Littoral (later converted to the National University of Rosario), and earned a Law Degree in 1940. He and his wife had three sons.
He resumed his activities in the UCR, and was elected to successive party committee posts. Gómez joined former Córdoba Province Governor Amadeo Sabattini's Intransigence and Renewal Front (MIR) upon its establishment in 1945. The MIR was a liberal wing of the UCR formed in opposition to the party's alliance with conservatives in the Democratic Union coalition. The MIR instead endorsed the populist Labor Party candidate, Juan Perón, who would go on to win the 1946 elections. Gómez, like most in the MIR, later became disillusioned with Perón and returned to the UCR fold. He joined Arturo Frondizi's UCRI, however, and became his nominee for the Vice Presidency when the latter split from the UCR during the November 1956 convention in Tucumán due to opposition of UCR leader Ricardo Balbín's hard-line stance against Peronists (who had been banned following the 1955 coup against President Perón).
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