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Horacio Rosatti

Argentine politician and judge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5901983 ↗
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Horacio Daniel Rosatti (born 11 August 1956) is an Argentine lawyer, politician, and a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina since 2016, designated by president Mauricio Macri's and the Senate's approval. In September 2021, he was elected President of the court by his peers, and took office on 1 October.

As a politician, for the Justicialist Party, he served as Mayor of Santa Fe from 1995 to 1999, as Procurator of the Treasury of the Nation from 2003 to 2004, and then as Minister of Justice when the president Néstor Kirchner appointed him to the position between 2004 and 2005.

Early life and education

Rosatti was born on 11 August 1956 in Santa Fe. He graduated in law from the National University of the Littoral (UNL). He is also a Doctor in History by the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

From 1999 to 2002, he was dean of the Universidad Católica de Santa Fe (UCSF) Faculty of Law. He has also taught courses at the graduate level on constitutional law and provincial and municipal public law at the UNL Faculty of Judicial and Social Sciences. At the post-graduate level, he has taught courses on constitutional and public law at the Universidad Austral and the National University of Rosario.

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The public source identifies “Horacio Rosatti” as argentine politician and judge. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Horacio, Rosatti and Argentine.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2016, 2021, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-08-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Horacio, Rosatti and Argentine providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5901983. VIAF identifies the subject as 69183416. The Library of Congress control number is n84231148. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956, 2016, 2021 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Horacio Rosatti” 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.