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Manuel B. Gonnet
1855–1927
A Buenos Aires lawyer and public servant, he is remembered both for his role in provincial politics and for a spirited defense of private railway management in nineteenth-century Argentina.
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Adhesiones á la Venta de los Ferro-carriles de la Provincia
by Manuel B. Gonnet
About the author
Born in Buenos Aires on August 20, 1855, Manuel Bernardo Gonnet trained as a lawyer and went on to build a career in public life. Argentine sources describe him as an able official and legislator, and the town of Gonnet near La Plata was named in his honor.
He is also known as the author of Adhesiones á la Venta de los Ferro-carriles de la Provincia, a political work that argued in favor of transferring provincial railways to private ownership. The book reflects the economic and administrative debates of Argentina in the late nineteenth century.
Gonnet died in Buenos Aires on February 16, 1927. Though not widely read today, his name remains tied to both Argentine civic history and a period of intense discussion about modernization, infrastructure, and the role of the state.