Vicente López y Planes

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Vicente López y Planes

1784–1856

A lawyer, writer, and statesman from Buenos Aires, he is best remembered for writing the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem. He also briefly served as provisional president during one of the most unsettled moments in Argentina’s early national history.

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Argentina, Legend and History

Argentina, Legend and History

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre

About the author

Born in Buenos Aires in 1784, Vicente López y Planes became one of the notable public figures of Argentina’s independence era. Trained in law, he moved between political life and literary work at a time when the region was breaking away from Spanish rule.

He is most widely remembered as the author of the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem, approved in 1813. That achievement gave him a lasting place in the country’s cultural history, even though he also held many public offices over the course of his life.

López y Planes later served in government during the turbulent early decades of the nation and was briefly provisional president of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1827. He died in Buenos Aires in 1856, leaving behind a legacy tied both to Argentina’s politics and to one of its most enduring national symbols.