José Evaristo Uriburu


José Félix Evaristo de Uriburu y Álvarez de Arenales was President of Argentina from 23 January 1895 to 12 October 1898.
He was an adept diplomat; participating as arbiter on the peace negotiations on the War of the Pacific between Chile, Perú and Bolivia.
He was Vice-President and became President of Argentina in 1895 when Luis Sáenz Peña resigned.
His son was José Evaristo Uriburu y Tezanos Pinto, Argentinian Ambassador in London in the 1920s, and father of Clarita de Uriburu, Cecil Beaton's model.

Work in office as President