Background
Bartolomé Mitre was born on 26 June 1821 in Buenos Aires.
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Bartolomé Mitre was born on 26 June 1821 in Buenos Aires.
Mitre became military commander and governor of Buenos Aires Province. He commanded Buenos Aires forces which defeated the provincial armies in 1861, spent the next year working to form the provinces into a new federal government, and was unanimously elected the first president of the new republic in 1862.
Following his presidency, Mitre increasingly turned his attention to historical investigations. He wrote the four-volume Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina in 1887.
In 1874 Mitre was defeated for the presidency by Nicolás Avellaneda, charged fraud, and attempted an unsuccessful revolt. However, he was soon pardoned; he served as a diplomat and senator, ending his career as president of the Senate. Mitre was one of the founders of the Unión Cívica in 1890.