Carlos Washington Lencinas
| Carlos Washington Lencinas | |
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| Governor of Mendoza | |
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In office 1922–1924 |
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| Preceded by | Eudoro Vasos Gómez |
| Succeeded by | Enrique Mosca |
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| Born | November 13, 1888 |
| Died | November 10, 1929 |
Carlos Washington Lencinas (November 13, 1888 - November 10, 1929) was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.
Carlos Washington Lencinas was born in Rivadavia Department, Mendoza, in 1888, to Fidela Peacock and José Néstor Lencinas. The elder Lencinas was a Mendoza Province lawmaker known for his tempestuous political rights advocacy. Carlos Lencinas enrolled at the National University of Córdoba, and upon earning a Law Degree, returned to Mendoza and joined his father as a local leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He was elected to the Lower House of Congress alongside his father in 1916.
His father's progressive social and economic policies endeared him to the then-agrarian province's sizable population of tenant farmers and peons, many of which were victims of debt bondage. They also made enemies of the province's landowing elite, however, as well as of the reformist President Hipólito Yrigoyen, who sought the latter group's support, and had Lencinas removed as governor in late 1919. His father's death in 1920 made Congressman Lencinas a staunch opponent of President Yrigoyen, though without leaving the UCR. He, instead, became the leader of the "Situationist" UCR, one of a number of dissident UCR factions that arose on the heels of President Yrigoyen's numerous decrees removing governors and other lawmakers.
Lencinas was elected Governor of Mendoza in 1922, upon which his ticket became known as the "Lencinist" UCR. He focused public works spending on social infrastructure, notably the José Néstor Lencinas Hospital (inaugurated as a tuberculosis hospital). Restoring much of the suspended labor and social legislation signed by his father in 1919, Governor Lencinas fell out of step with the increasingly conservative UCR leadership, and was removed in 1924 by order of President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear.
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