3-082-184 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Señor Saenz Peña, ex-President of Argentina, 1895. 'Señor Luis Saenz Peña has resigned the Presidency of Argentina...Although a distinguished lawyer, Dr. Saenz Peña was not widely known until shortly before his election. His name was brought before the public at a very exciting moment, when honesty appeared almost extinct in Argentina. His scrupulously honourable career as a judge, and finally President of the Supreme Court of Justice, first called attention to him. Dr. Saenz Peña was well aware of the difficulties connected with his task as the First Minister of the Republic, and therefore from the very beginning he took an independent position, and has seemingly maintained it...His religious faith and earnest desire to assist his country have upheld his hope of honest support from his fellow-countrymen...Dr. Luis Saenz Peña has a considerable private fortune, and is likely to retire to his country estate at Terrari, on the Great Southern Railway line...He retired from public life until the close of 1890, when he was appointed President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation, which post he occupied with much honour and distinction until his candidature and election as President of the Argentine Republic'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.