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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 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.

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“Domingo Faustino Sarmiento” enters the record as president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Domingo, Faustino and Sarmiento can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.