José Figueroa Alcorta

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = José Figueroa Alcorta

| image = José Figueroa Alcorta - 1910.JPG

| image_size =

| caption = Official portrait, 1906

| nationality = {{flagu|Argentina|name=Argentina|size=23px}}

| office = President of Argentina

| order = 16th

| term_start = March 13, 1906

| term_end = October 11, 1910

| predecessor = Manuel Quintana

| successor = Roque Sáenz Peña

| office2 = Vice President of Argentina

| order2 = 10th

| term_start2 = October 12, 1904

| term_end2 = March 12, 1906

| president2 = Manuel Quintana

| predecessor2 = Norberto Quirno Costa

| successor2 = Victorino de la Plaza

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|11|20}}

| birth_place = Córdoba, Argentina

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|12|27|1860|11|20}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

| spouse = Josefa Julia María Bouquet Roldán

| party = National Autonomist Party

| vicepresident =

| profession = Lawyer

| alma_mater = National University of Córdoba

| birth_name = José Figueroa Alcorta

| children = Clara Julia
Mario Ramón
Jorge Esteban
Luis Héctor

| resting_place = La Recoleta Cemetery
Buenos Aires, Argentina

}}

José María Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta (November 20, 1860 – December 27, 1931) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who managed to be the only person to head the three powers of the State: Vice President of the Nation (President of the Senate), from October 12, 1904 to March 12, 1906, President of the Nation from that date and until October 12, 1910; and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Nation, from 1929 until his death in 1931.{{cite news|date=December 28, 1931|title=JOSE F. ALCORTA DEAD; ARGENTINE JURIST; Was Chief Justice of Supreme Court and Had Served as President for Four Years|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/12/28/archives/jose-f-alcort-a-dead-argentine-jurist-was-chief-justice-of-supreme.html|access-date=18 March 2013}}

Biography

Figueroa Alcorta was born in Córdoba as the son of José Figueroa and Teodosia Alcorta. He was elected a National Deputy for Córdoba before becoming Provincial Governor in 1895. In 1898 he returned to the Argentine Congress as a Senator. In 1904 he became Vice-President of Argentina and in 1906 succeeded Manuel Quintana as President.{{cite book|last=Solberg|first=Carl E.|title=Oil and Nationalism in Argentina: A History|url=https://archive.org/details/oilnationalismin0000solb|url-access=registration|access-date=18 March 2013|year=1979|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804709859|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oilnationalismin0000solb/page/12 12]–}}{{cite book|last=Akers|first=Charles Edmond|title=A history of South America, 1854-1904|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsoutha00aker|access-date=18 March 2013|year=1904|publisher=E.P. Dutton|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofsoutha00aker/page/120 120]–}}{{cite book|last1=Colby|first1=Frank Moore|last2=Churchill|first2=Allen Leon|title=New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_smAMAAAAYAAJ|access-date=18 March 2013|year=1909|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Co.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_smAMAAAAYAAJ/page/n61 46]–}} He was an active Freemason.{{cite web|url=http://www.logiamazzini.org.ar/masones_ilustres_argentinos.htm |title=Masones Ilustres Argentinos |access-date=2013-04-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922004533/http://www.logiamazzini.org.ar/masones_ilustres_argentinos.htm |archive-date=2013-09-22 }}