Background
Alfredo Palacios was born on 10 August 1879 in Buenos Aires.
Diplomat politician public official
Alfredo Palacios was born on 10 August 1879 in Buenos Aires.
He received his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and later was professor and dean of the University of Buenos Aires law faculty, and professor, dean, and president of the University of La Plata. His academic speciality was labor legislation, but his passion was politics.
Palacios was one of the founders of the Socialist party and in 1904 became the first Socialist deputy in the national Congress. Reelected several times, he was later elected to the national Senate, serving from 1935 to 1943.
Palacios was one of Juan Domingo Perón’s most bitter critics. In 1944 he resigned all his academic positions in protest against what Palacios felt was Perón's destruction of the free labor movement in Argentina. Along with many other Socialist labor and political figures, Palacios was forced to go into exile.
Although over 70 years old by the time Perón was overthrown, Palacios was named ambassador to Uruguay in 1955 and participated in the constitutional reform convention of 1957. He was elected senator again in 1958, but resigned in protest against the military's overthrow of the constitutional government of President Arturo Frondizi in 1962.