Hipolito irigoyen biography for kids

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Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen Alem was a two-time President of Argentina (from 1916 to 1922, and again from 1928 to 1930).

Hipolito irigoyen biography for kids

Background

Hipólito Yrigoyen was born on July 12, 1852, in Buenos Aires.

Education

In 1861, at the age of nine, he entered San Jose school in Buenos Aires, later continued to study at the College of South America, where his uncle Leandro N.

Alem was professor of philosophy. At the age of fifteen, Irigoyen interrupted his studies to help his father, who bought a fleet of chariots to work in the port.

Career

In 1867, Hipólito Yrigoyen began work in a law firm which was divided between Leandro Alem and Aristobulo del Valle.

In 1882 he became a Freemason.

In 1891 he co-founded the Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical), together with his uncle, Leandro Alem. Following Alem's suicide in 1896, Hipóli