Sáenz Peña, Roque
Sáenz Peña, Roque
(rō`kā sä`āns pā`nyä), 1851–1914, Argentine statesman, president of the republic (1910–14); son of an earlier president (1892–95), Luis Sáenz Peña. He had an active career as soldier, legislator, diplomat, and cabinet official before he was inaugurated president (Oct., 1910) for a six-year term. His administration was significant for electoral reform. Because of these measures a peaceful revolution occurred when, in the presidential election of 1916, the landowning oligarchy was replaced by a new group, the Radicals, headed by Hipólito IrigoyenIrigoyen, Hipólito, 1850?–1933, Argentine political leader, president of the republic (1916–22, 1928–30). In 1896 he became the leader of the Radicals, a bourgeois reform party.
..... Click the link for more information. . Sáenz Peña, however, did not live to see the full results of his reform.