Damaso Centeno

March 10, 1850 (age 42)

Rosario, Argentina

He was elected deputy for his province for three terms, 1882-1884, 1886-1890 and 1890-1894, the final mandate being cut short by his early and sudden death. He was the son of Dámaso Centeno senior and Cecilia Fernández. His father, a colonel in the army, was killed at the Battle of Cepeda of 1859. Following studies in law at the University of Buenos Aires, he graduated with an Doctor of Laws in 1878. He created a school in Córdoba, and then from 8 April 1891, founded an orphanage for children, like himself, who had lost fathers in the military. The location was the house of his mother, with financial and practical support from a group of officers" wives. This "Asilo de Huérfanos de Militares" became the basis for the government-funded Instituto Social Militar Doctor Dámaso Centeno in Buenos Aires approved by the Peronist government in 1947.

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He was elected deputy for his province for three terms, 1882-1884, 1886-1890 and 1890-1894, the final mandate being cut short by his early and sudden death. He was the son of Dámaso Centeno senior and Cecilia Fernández. His father, a colonel in the army, was killed at the Battle of Cepeda of 1859.

Following studies in law at the University of Buenos Aires, he graduated with an Doctor of Laws in 1878.

He created a school in Córdoba, and then from 8 April 1891, founded an orphanage for children, like himself, who had lost fathers in the military. The location was the house of his mother, with financial and practical support from a group of officers" wives.

This "Asilo de Huérfanos de Militares" became the basis for the government-funded Instituto Social Militar Doctor Dámaso Centeno in Buenos Aires approved by the Peronist government in 1947.

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