- President of Argentina (December 10, 1983 - July 7, 1989).
- After leaving office in 1989, he was an influential elder statesman, and frequently wrote opinion articles in the newspapers.
- After the failed 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, the Argentine military was forced to give up political power. The ban on political parties was ended. Alfonsin, the Radical Civic Union's underdog candidate, was elected president of Argentina in 1983. His government prosecuted many of the military leaders who had held power in the 1970s.
- He held local and provincial offices before being elected to Argentina's Parliament in 1963. In the 1970s, he became one of the few politicians who dared to criticize his country's military dictatorships and their henchmen.
- He graduated from a military academy and studied law. As an attorney, he defended many political prisoners.
- His father was an immigrant from Spain who was against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
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