Lisandro de la Torre was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe.
De la Torre became a lawyer in 1890. His thesis about municipalities and communes, as well as other works of his, gave rise to the idea of municipal autonomy in Argentina, which was included in the Argentine Constitution in the 1994 reform. In 1898 he founded the newspaper La República in Rosario.
He was considered as a model of ethics in politics. He was a national deputy and senator, a prominent polemicist, founder of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1914, when various provincial parties came together to form it. On two occasions, he was a candidate for the presidency of the republic.
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Address 1598 Avenida Portugal, Rosario, Argentina
Coordinates -32°54'50.957" N -60°41'10.994" E
