Ricardo Balbin
Ricardo Balbin was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the Union Civica Radical party (UCR), for which he was presidential candidate four times: in 1951, 1958, 1972 and 1973. The National Route 1 was named after him in 2004.
Ricardo Balbin was born to Cipriano Balbin and Encarnacion Morales in the city of Buenos Aires, but the family moved first to Azul, and later to Ayacucho when he was still a child. In 1909 his mother had to be moved to Spain to treat a serious disease.
In 1916, when Hipolito Yrigoyen became president of the country, Balbin started high-school at the Colegio San Jose. In 1921 he started his university studies in medicine, but abandoned it shortly after due to financial dfficulties. In 1922 at just 18 years old, Balbin joined the Union Civica Radical, and moved to La Plata, where the student atmosphere gave him the incentive to start Law School at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, obtaining a law degree in 1927.
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