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Vicente Lpez y Planes

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Alejandro Vicente Lpez y Planes (May 3, 1785

October 10, 1856) was an Argentine writer and politician
who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7,
1827 to August 18, 1827. He also wrote the lyrics of the
Argentine National Anthem adopted on May 11, 1813.
Lpez began his primary studies in the San Francisco
School, and later studied in the Real Colegio San Carlos,
today the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. He obtained
a doctorate of laws in the University of Chuquisaca. He
served as a captain in the Patriotic Regiment during the
English invasions. After the Argentine victory he
composed a poem entitled El triunfo argentino (The
Argentine Triumph). He participated in the Cabildo
Abierto of May 22, 1810 and supported the formation of
the Primera Junta. He had good relations with Manuel
Belgrano. When the royalist members of the city
government of Buenos Aires were expulsed, he was
elected mayor of the city; he was an enemy of the party of
Cornelio Saavedra and one of the creators of the First
Triumvirate, of which he was the Treasurer.
Lpez was a member of the Constituent Assembly of year
XIII, representing Buenos Aires. At the request of the
Assembly, he wrote the lyrics to a "patriotic march",
which eventually became the Argentine National Anthem.
It was a military march, whose music was composed by
the Catalan Blas Parera; it was approved on March 11,
1813. The first public reading was at a tertulia on May 7
in the house of Mariquita Snchez de Thompson. It
displaced a different march, written by Esteban de Luca,
which would have been the hymn if not for the more
militaristic Lopez.
Lpez participated in the government of Carlos Mara de
Alvear, and with his fall he was sent to prison. He held a
few more public offices, and was then named Secretary of
the Constituent Congress of 1825, and, a little later,
minister for the president Bernardino Rivadavia.
After the scandal of negotiations with the Brazilian
Empire, Rivadavia resigned the presidency. In his place,
Lpez was elected as caretaker, signing the dissolution of
the Congress and calling elections in Buenos Aires. The
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Vicente Lpez y Planes

2nd President of the United Provinces of the Rio

de la Plata
In office
7 July 1827 17 August 1827
Preceded by Bernardino Rivadavia
Succeeded by Manuel Dorrego (Governor of Buenos
Aires)

18. Governor of Buenos Aires Province

In office
13 February 1852 26 July 1852
Preceded by Juan Manuel de Rosas
Succeeded by Justo Jos de Urquiza
Personal details
Born

May 3, 1785
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Ro
de la Plata

Died

October 10, 1856 (aged 71)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nationality

Argentine
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new governor, Manuel Dorrego took charge of the

Spouse(s)
Luca Petrona Riera Merlo
ministry; this unified the federalists. When Dorrego fell
Profession
Lawyer
from grace and was executed by firing squad by Juan
Lavalle, Lopez was exiled to Uruguay. He returned in
1830 as a member of the Tribunal of Justice for Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was president of the Tribunal for
many years and, among other things, presided over the judgement of the assassins of Juan Facundo Quiroga.
He was president of the literary salon led by Marcos Sastre, but was not part of the group known as the
Generation of '37, to which belonged his two sons, Vicente Fidel Lpez and Lucio Vicente Lpez.

See also
List of heads of state of Argentina

External links
Works by Vicente Lpez y Planes (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Planes,+Vicente+Lpez+y) at
Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Vicente Lpez y Planes (https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28%28Alejan
dro+Vicente+Lpez+y+Planes%29%20OR%20%28Alejandro+Vicente+L%2Apez+y+Planes%29%29
%20OR%20%28%221785-1856%22%20AND%20Planes%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:soft
ware%29) at Internet Archive
Vicente Lpez y Planes (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7025298) at Find
a Grave
Political offices
Preceded by
Bernardino Rivadavia

President of Argentina
1827

Succeeded by
Manuel Dorrego

Preceded by
Juan Manuel de Rosas

Governor of Buenos Aires Province

1852

Succeeded by
Justo Jos de Urquiza

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