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Juan Domingo Perón
Argentina
Juan Domingo Perón, a lieutenant general and politician, founded the Peronist movement and served three times as President of Argentina. He first took office in 1946 after creating the Labour Party, which later became the Justicialist Party. His first wife, Eva Perón, was a political figure until her death in 1952. Perón died of cardiac arrest in 1974 at age 78.
