Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina. Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active family that paved the way for many of his future accomplishments.

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