Jose Hernandez
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Jose Hernandez was an Argentine journalist and poet, best known as the author of the epic poem Martin Fierro.
Hernandez, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martin (Buenos Aires Province). His father was a butler or foreman of a series of cattle ranches, thus Hernandez grew up living a somewhat privileged version of the life of a young gaucho. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation.
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