Vicente López y Planes

Alejandro Vicente López y Planes ( May 3, 1785 Buenos Aires, † October 10, 1856 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer and President of Argentina (1827 ).

López wrote the text " OID Mortales " ( " Hear, mortals " ), which on May 10, 1813 the Argentine national anthem.

He actively participated in the May Revolution of 1810 in part, was secretary of the first Argentine triumvirate, deputy of the General Assembly of 1813, as well as provisional president of Argentina following the resignation of Bernardino Rivadavia in 1827. Moreover, he was a minister under Manuel Dorrego and provisional president of the Buenos Aires province after the fall of the dictator Rosas.

He also wrote a number of poems with patriotic character.

López y Planes was buried in the Cementerio de la Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

Works

  • El triunfo argentino. Poema heroico. . Imprenta Real de los Niños Exposito, Buenos Aires 1808 ( Edición facsimilar: Instituto Cultural de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; Comisión Provincial del Bicentenario, La Plata 2007, ISBN 978-987-1245-32-1 ).
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