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Hipólito Yrigoyen
Hipólito Yrigoyen was the leader of the Radical Civic Union and the first Argentine president elected under the secret and compulsory male suffrage of the Sáenz Peña Law, serving from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928. Popular with the middle classes, he was overthrown on 6 September 1930 by General José Félix Uriburu in the country's first successful military coup of the twentieth century.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hipólito Yrigoyen. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hipolito-yrigoyen
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