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PEÑA ROQUE, an Argentine statesman, born at Buenos Ayres, in 1851.
He studied law in the University of Buenos Ayres, and in 1876 was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming in the course of a year president of the Chamber. When the war with Peru broke out in 1879 he joined the army and was wounded and taken prisoner. Returning to his native city in 1881 he became Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile he had entered journalism and founded the review "Sud America." He became minister to Uraguay and served as ambassador to Spain in 1906, and to Italy 1907-10. In 1910 he was elected president of the republic and as such promoted the A. B. C. (Argentine, Brazil, Chile) entente. He died in 1914.