Juan Domingo (Peron) Perón (1895 - 1974)

Born 8 Oct 1895 in Lobos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Eva (Duarte) Perón — married 4 Jun 1946 (to 26 Jul 1952) in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died 1 Jul 1974 at age 78 in Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Biography

Juan (Peron) Perón has Italian Roots.

Juan (Peron) Perón is Notable.

Perón was born in Lobos, Buenos Aires Province, on October 8, 1895. He was the son of Juana Sosa Toledo and Mario Tomás Perón. Juana Sosa was descended from indigenous Tehuelche from Patagonia in Argentina's south and his father, Mario Perón's forbears emigrated to Argentina from Spain, and the Italian island of Sardinia. The Perón branch of his family originated in Sardinia, from which his great-grandfather emigrated in the 1830s. His parents had their two sons out of wedlock and married in 1901.

He was three times elected as President of Argentina, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown by a coup d'état, and from October 1973 to July 1974.

Perón returned to Buenos Aires with clear signs of pneumonia and, on June 28, 1974, he suffered a series of heart attacks. Perón suffered a final attack on July 1, 1974.

On December 19, 1976, his body was ordered removed from the chapel at the presidential palace in Olives by General Videla and entombed in the family vault at Chacarita Cemetery.^[1] Work on an ornate tomb, a giant 160-foot high altar, was never finished and was dynamited by Videla's forces. In 1987, robbers desecrated his tomb despite security precautions and sliced off the general's hands with an electric saw. They sent an $8M ransom demand, which has never been paid nor the hands found.

On October 17, 2006, his remains were moved again to the Museo Quinta 17 de Octubre, a former property of Peron and Evita, to a specially built crypt.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #6532290 (accessed 28 August 2022)
   Memorial page for Juan Domingo Perón Famous memorial (8 Oct 1895-1 Jul 1974), citing Cementerio de la Chacarita, Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina; Maintained by Find a Grave.
2. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #16238858 (accessed 28 August 2022)
   Memorial page for Juan Domingo Perón Famous memorial (8 Oct 1895-1 Jul 1974), citing Museo Quinta 17 de Octubre, San Vicente, Partido de San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina (plot: Specially built crypt. GPS coord. lat: -35.0207 long: -58.4360); Maintained by Find a Grave.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Juan Perón
• Wikidata: Item Q93330, en:Wikipedia
• FamilySearch/Family Tree profile (sourced) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L41P-69F
• Juan is mentioned in the book 'BOOSEY & HAWKES: THE PUBLISHING STORY' written by Helen Wallace.'Boosey & Hawkes, the Publishing Story' by Helen Wallace-1