Enrique Mosca

Enrique Mosca (July 15, 1880 - July 22, 1950) was an Argentine lawyer and politician prominent in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Enrique Mosca was born in Santa Fe, in 1880. He enrolled at the Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception and received a juris doctor from the University of the Province of Santa Fe (today the National University of the Littoral), in 1906.

Affiliated to the UCR from his years at the university, he helped advance the UCR's push for democratic elections through his post as editor-in-chief of La Argentina, one of Santa Fe's leading newsdailies at the time. Their securing that critical reform in 1912 led to the election of the UCR's leader, Hipólito Yrigoyen, in 1916. That election also carried Mosca to Congress, and in 1920, he was elected governor of his native Santa Fe Province.

Governor Mosca enacted numerous reforms in office, while keeping a pragmatic agenda. He rescinded annual fees for public primary school students and created the Provincial Library and Archives. He vetoed the replacement of the provincial constitution for the sake of avoiding future conflict; but responded to strikes among logging industry workers by sanctioning the formation of paramilitary groups against them. This record helped earn Mosca an appointment as Federal Interventor of Mendoza Province in 1924 when President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear removed the progressive governor, Carlos Washington Lencinas. He joined the "Antipersonalist UCR" when this faction's opposition to Yrigoyen led to a split from the party, in 1924. He was named head of the National Education Council in 1926 and was among the few Antipersonalists to win a seat in Congress in the 1928 elections, when Yrigoyen was returned to the presidency in a landslide.

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