Roberto Marcelo Levingston

{{Short description|President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Brigadier General

| name = Roberto Marcelo Levingston

| image = Levingston (cropped).jpg

| caption = Levingston in 1970

| order = 36th

| office = President of Argentina

| term_start = 18 June 1970

| term_end = 23 March 1971

| vicepresident = Vacant

| predecessor = Juan Carlos Onganía

| successor = Alejandro Agustín Lanusse

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|1|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = San Luis, Argentina

| death_date = {{death date and age |2015|6|17|1920|1|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

| spouse = Betty Nelly Andrés

| party = Independent

| children = 3

| profession = Military

| signature = Roberto Marcelo Levingston (firma).jpg

| allegiance = {{flag|Argentina}}

| branch = Argentine Army

| serviceyears = 1938–1971

| rank = Brigadier general

| commands = Argentine Army

| battles = Argentine Revolution

}}

Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (10 January 1920{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&q=Roberto+Marcelo+Levingston&pg=PA40|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|first=Harris M.|last=Lentz|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134264902|access-date=13 October 2017|via=Google Books}}{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptZwCVvIJxkC&q=Roberto+Marcelo+Levingston+Laborda|title=The International Who's who: 1990-91|first=Europa Publications|last=Limited|date=13 October 1990|publisher=Europa Publications Limited|isbn=9780946653584|access-date=13 October 2017|via=Google Books}}{{citation|url=http://www.genealogiafamiliar.net/getperson.php?personID=I649478&tree=BVCZ|title=Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda n. 10 Ene 1920 San Luis, San Luis, Argentina f. 17 Jun 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina: Genealogía Familiar|website=Genealogiafamiliar.net|access-date=13 October 2017}} – 17 June 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was the 36th President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971.{{citation

| last = Lewis

| first = Daniel K.

| isbn = 978-0-313-31256-4

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/historyofargenti00dani/page/134 134–135]

| publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group

| series = The Greenwood histories of the modern nations

| title = The History of Argentina

| year = 2001

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/historyofargenti00dani/page/134

}}.{{citation

| last1 = Keen | first1 = Benjamin |author1-link=Benjamin Keen

| last2 = Haynes | first2 = Keith

| edition = 8th

| isbn = 978-0-618-78318-2

| page = 374

| publisher = Cengage Learning

| title = A History of Latin America

| year = 2008}}.

Early life and education

Levingston was born in San Luis Province, and graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1941.

On 18 December 1943, Levingston married Betty Nelly Andrés (born 4 May 1926){{citation|url=http://www.genealogiafamiliar.net/getperson.php?personID=I649501&tree=BVCZ|title=Bety Nelly Andrés Llana n. 4 May 1926 San Miguel, Bs. As., Argentina: Genealogía Familiar|website=Genealogiafamiliar.net|access-date=13 October 2017}} and had two sons and one daughter, Roberto, Maria and Alberto.

Presidency

File:Levingston de civil.jpg

Levingston's military expertise included intelligence and counterinsurgency, and he took the presidency of Argentina on 18 June 1970, in a military coup that deposed Juan Carlos Onganía over his ineffective response to the Montoneros and other guerillas. His regime was marked by a protectionist economic policy that did little to overcome the inflation and recession that the country was undergoing at the time, and by the imposition of the death penalty against terrorists and kidnappers. In response to renewed anti-government rioting in Córdoba and to the labor crisis under his leadership, he was deposed on 21 March 1971, by another military junta led by Alejandro Lanusse.

Death

He died on 17 June 2015, at the age of 95.{{citation|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1802793-murio-roberto-marcelo-levingston|title=Murió Roberto Marcelo Levingston|language=es|newspaper=La Nación|date=June 18, 2015}} He is the longest-lived President of Argentina.{{cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/historia-argentina/2019/03/09/cincuentones-longevos-o-muy-jovenes-curiosidades-de-las-edades-de-los-presidentes-argentinos/|title=Cincuentones, longevos o muy jóvenes: curiosidades de las edades de los presidentes argentinos|author=Félix V. Lonigro|publisher=Infobae.com|date=2019-03-09|accessdate=2023-07-04|language=es}}

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