José Ignacio García Hamilton

José Ignacio García Hamilton was born on the 1^st November 1943; he died on the 17^th June 2009. He was an argentine writer, historian, a lawyer and a politician. He was elected to be the Argentine Chamber Deputies for the Radical Civic Union and he represented Tucumán region of the country.

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Biography

Garcia was born in San Miguel de Tucuman to the family of Lucía Elena Aráoz and Enrique García Hamilton. He studied at the University of Tucuman and finished in the year 1969 and got his Ph.D. in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, it was also there that he later became a professor of history and law.

García Hamilton worked as a columnist and as the Secretary General of a newspaper in Tucuman called La Gaceta that was owned by his family and the editor in chief being his father.  García Hamilton was the founder of El Pueblo, which was a local newspaper in the year 1972 and he was pronounced to be the director of the Association of Provincial Newspaper. In the mid-1970s, v was sent to the prison in the final ruling months of the Presidency of Isabel Martínez de Perón. He was a column ist for many newspapers and magazines in his country, Argentina, Uruguay, and in the United States.

In the year 1975, after he has been released from the prison and sent on an exile to Buenos Aires, v started his career as a lawyer and he was the founder of the García Hamilton and Asociades Law Firm.

He authored many books like Hispano-American authoritarianism and unproductiveness (1990). He also authored many biographies like that of the following personalities; Juan Bautista Alberdi, Life of an absentee (1993); Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Rowdy Cuyano (1997), and José de San Martín, Don José (2000). He was the winner of the Merit Diploma from the KonexFoundation for Life of an Absentee. García Hamilton presented several TV Programs on the history of the country.

In the year 2006, García Hamilton was sent to Cuba with no explanation given to him. He was elected to be the national deputy for the region in assistance of the presidential bid of Roberto Lavangna.

García Hamilton was married to Graciela Gass and they had six children together. He died on the 18^th June 2009 after battling with cancer for ten years.

Bibliography

Ø  AutoritarismoHispanoamericano

Ø  Vida de unAusente. La vida de Juan Bautista Alberdi

Ø  CuyanoAlborotador. La vida de Domingo Sarmiento

Ø  Don José. La vida de José de San Martín

Ø  Simon. La vida de Simón Bolívar

Ø  PorquéCrecen los Países.

Ø  Juan Domingo. La vida de Peron