Domingo Faustino Sarmiento [SEP] position held
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (February 15, 1811 – September 11, 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the "Generation of 1837", who had a great influence on nineteenth-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence
looted, and he had to go into hiding for a while. 
Wisely, he stayed away from politics during the 1860s, 
in which Governor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento took his revenge, followed by the Federal Revolution of the Colorados in late 1866.
He was appointed police chief in 1873 by Governor Manuel José Gómez Rufino, a position he held until the invasion by José Miguel Arredondo the following year, during the revolution of 1874. After Arredondo's defeat, he was elected provincial deputy.
In 1883 he published