Background
PUEYRREDÔNorth, Honorio was born in 872 in Buenos Aires, July 9, -J. Son of Doctor Adolfo Pueyrredôn and Maria Idalina C. de Fontours de Pueyrredôn.
PUEYRREDÔNorth, Honorio was born in 872 in Buenos Aires, July 9, -J. Son of Doctor Adolfo Pueyrredôn and Maria Idalina C. de Fontours de Pueyrredôn.
Participated in the unsuccessful revolutionary campaign of 1893, following which he retired from politics for the time being to devote himself to his studies and to the management of his extensive ranches and other rural property. Professor (by competition) in the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, 1893-1916. Later elected to the University Council.
At various times candidate for deputy of the new Civic Union Party (reorganized in 1910): Argentine delegate to the Conference of Maritime Law of Venice and to the International Expositions of Turin and Roubaix, 1911.
Later joined the Radical Party which in 1916 elected Senior Hipolito Irigoyen to the presidency.
Minister of Agriculture, 1916-1919. Argentine delegate to the centenary of the Battle of Maipii, Chile, 1917.
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1918-1919.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1919-1922. President of the Argentine delegation to the first assembly of the League of Nations, also elected a vice-president of the same, 1920. Ambassador to the United States, 1924.
Elected Governor of Buenos Aires in the elections of 1931 (annulled by the Provisional Government which arose out of the Revolution of 1930).
Exiled in 1931.
Married Julieta Meyans. Children: Three sons, six daughters. Educated privately and at the University of Buenos Aires (degree of doctor of jurisprudence, with diploma of honor, 1896).