{"id":2996,"date":"2011-07-02T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2011-07-02T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:07:40","slug":"424-jose-figueroa-alcorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"424. jos\u00e9 figueroa alcorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201001E09.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in C\u00f3rdoba in 1860, <strong>Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta<\/strong> got an introduction to national politics by representing his native province in Congress. Popular among the oligarchy, Figueroa Alcorta become Vice-President under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=168\">Manuel Quintana<\/a> in 1904. After Quintana&#8217;s death two years later, he inherited the presidency &amp; remained in office for one of the most important celebrations in Argentine history: the 1910 centennial. His photo is one of the most recognized during the festivities (<em>below, left center<\/em>), welcoming <strong>La Infanta Isabel <\/strong>from Spain (<em>center<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta, centenario\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/centennial.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta, centenario\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201001E02.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After his presidential term ended, Figueroa Alcorta served as <strong>Ambassador to Spain<\/strong> then was elected to the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> in 1915. From 1929 until his death in 1931, he served as Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Trivia buffs<\/strong> will love the fact that Figueroa Alcorta was the only person in national history to serve in all three top government positions: Senator \/ head of Congress as Vice-President, President, &amp; Chief Justice. Located in the northernmost corner of the cemetery, most visitors rarely visit this tomb or recognize his contribution to the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201001E10.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in C\u00f3rdoba in 1860, Jos\u00e9 Figueroa Alcorta got an introduction to national politics by representing his native province in Congress. Popular among the oligarchy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2996\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">424. jos\u00e9 figueroa alcorta<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","category-presidents","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}