Antonio de Tomaso
Argentinian politician
Antonio de Tomaso, born Antonio Di Tommaso (26 June 1889 – 3 August 1933), was an Argentine politician, Minister of Agriculture, and father of Alejandro de Tomaso.
Biography
De Tomaso was born into an immigrant family from Southern Italy. The original family name (Di Tommaso) was changed by De Tomaso upon being nominated a stenographer in the National Congress of Argentina when he was 24. In 1914 he obtained a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires. The same year, he married Victoria Gucovsky, but separated in 1921. He later married Isabella Ceballos Arellano, from a prominent family of land-owners, with whom he fathered four children: Marcelo, Jaime, Alejandro, and Carlos.
De Tomaso was a member of the Socialist Party since 1907 and was elected to the National Chamber of Deputies in 1914 for the City of Buenos Aires. He remained until 1930, for a total of four legislatures. He participated as an Argentinian delegate to the Socialist International of 1919 at Bern, Switzerland. At Congress he interested on issues related to foreign policy and defense for the Socialist Party, but also participated in important debates on issues of economic and social legislation and contributed to the 1921 reform of the Criminal Code.
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