Honorio Pueyrredón

Honorio Pueyrredón ( born June 9, 1876 in San Pedro, † September 23, 1945 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine lawyer, university professor, politician and diplomat.

Pueyrredón studied until 1896 Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Later he worked in the Unión Cívica Radical. In 1916 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture. From 1917 to 1922 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, during this period he was also the representative of Argentina at the League of Nations in Geneva. In 1922, he was ambassador to the U.S., where he was also responsible for relations with Cuba. In 1928 Pueyrredón was president of the Argentine delegation in Havana. In 1931 he was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires. This choice, however, was canceled due to election fraud by José Félix Uriburu. Politically, he took the positions of Hipólito Yrigoyen.

After he was named the Avenida Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires.