Juan Peron
1895 – 1974 Argentine army officer, president
The Argentine leader whose populist movement reshaped the country's politics for generations.
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliations
- Justicialist (Peronist) movement
Juan Peron was an army officer who became president of Argentina in 1946, building a mass movement based on labor, nationalism, and state-led development. His government mixed social reforms with authoritarian control of the press and opposition. Overthrown in 1955, he returned from exile to a brief final presidency in the 1970s; his Peronist movement still shapes Argentine politics.