José Ignacio García Hamilton
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Historian Jose Ignacio García Hamilton
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| Born | November 1, 1943 Tucumán |
| Died | June 17, 2009 Buenos Aires |
| Pen name | Coché |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Historian, Writer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Education | Universidad de Tucumán (Law); University of Buenos Aires (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Konex Award, Sousa Mendes International Award, among others |
| Spouse | Graciela Gass |
| Children | Bernabé, José, Julieta, Luis, Delfina, Manuel |
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José Ignacio García Hamilton (1 November 1943 – 17 June 2009) was an Argentine writer, noted historian, lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Radical Civic Union representing Tucumán Province.
García Hamilton was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to Lucía Elena Aráoz and Enrique García Hamilton. He studied at the National University of Tucumán, graduating in 1969, and received his PhD in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, where he later was a Professor of history and law. He worked as a columnist and Secretary General of La Gaceta newspaper in Tucumán - which was owned by his family and edited by his father. He founded El Pueblo, a local newspaper, in 1972, and was named director of the Association of Provincial Newspapers; his brother, Eduardo, was also a prominent Tucumán journalist, serving as director of La Gaceta, and founder of Siglo XXI. In the mid-1970s, in the final months of the Presidency of Isabel Martínez de Perón, he was imprisoned by the government. He is a columnist for newspapers and magazines in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States.
In 1975, after his release from prison and exile to Buenos Aires, García Hamilton initiated his career as a lawyer and founded García Hamilton & Asociados law firm. The firm has grown since then to become an advisory firm providing legal, tax and finance advisory services (GHB Advisory), and is now run by his sons.
García Hamilton was the author of numerous books, including Hispano-American authoritarianism and unproductiveness (1990), and biographies of Juan Bautista Alberdi, Life of an absentee (1993); Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Rowdy Cuyano (1997), and José de San Martín, Don José (2000). Don José sold over 60,000 copies in Argentina. He won the Merit Diploma from the Konex Foundation for Life of an Absentee. He has presented several television programmes on Argentine history.
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