Norberto Piñero
Norberto Piñero (1858–1938) was a prominent Argentine lawyer, writer and conservative politician.
Life and times
Norberto Piñero was born to a landed family in the
high treason.[3] The bill met with resistance in Congress, particularly in the Senate, though it was largely adopted in 1903.[2]
Piñero was appointed Interventor of the
technology school, the Society for Industrial Education, in 1900. His work as Dean of the school earned Piñero an appointment in 1906 as Minister of Education by President José Figueroa Alcorta, a relatively pro-reform conservative who presided over the enactment of many of the nation's first labor laws. Piñero hosted the International Congress of Americanists, in 1910.[1]
Responding to a lack of a uniform body governing ethical practices among
1922 elections, though he was defeated by the UCR by around 40%.[6]
Piñero retired from political life, devoting his time to writing numerous texts on Argentine history and law, as well as to the Mitre Institution, a historical society specializing in the life of former President Bartolomé Mitre. Piñero died in 1938, at age 80.[1]
References and external links
- ^ a b c Historical Dictionary of Argentina. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
- ^ a b Opinorama: el código y la vida (in Spanish) Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Terragni, Marco Antonio. Delitos propios de los funcionarios públicos. mendoza: Ediciones Jurídicas Cuyo, 2003.
- ^ Colegio de Abogados de Buenos Aires (in Spanish)
- ^ Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina. p. 721. Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 2004.
- ^ Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in the Americas. Oxford University Press, 2005.
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