Background
SCASSO, León Lorenzo was born on April 11, 1882 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
SCASSO, León Lorenzo was born on April 11, 1882 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Educated Escuela Naval, 1896-1900, Escuela de Aplicación para Oficiales.
Sect, chief, naval technical division. 2d in command, armored cruiser Pueyrredón, on training cruise. Chief, naval commission in Europe, 1921-1923, and flotilla of aviso-boats acquired in Germany, 1922.
Delegate, Hydrographic Conference, London, 1922, Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 1932. Naval attaché, Argentine embassy, London, 1923. Commandant, armored cruiser Garibaldi.
Sect, chief, office of personnel. Chief, operations division and planning section, navy general staff. Director, Escuela de Aplicación para Oficiales.
Chief of general staff, 1931-1936. Adviser, Chaco peace conference, 1935. Commander-in-chief of sea squadron, and chief of armored ships division, 1936-1937.
Representative of navy to coronation of George VI of Great Britain, 1937. Minister of navy, 1938-1940. National interventor, province of Córdoba, 1943-1944.
Officer, Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil), Del Mérito (Chile), Sol del Perú, German Eagle. Officer, Crown of Italy. Scasso and Victoria Borzone.