{{Short description|Argentine politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Foto de campaña Angeloz 1989.png |name= Eduardo Angeloz |caption=Image for the campaign for the [[1989 Argentine general election|1989 election]] |office= [[Governor of Córdoba, Argentina|Governor of Córdoba]] |term_start=December 10, 1983 |term_end=July 12, 1995 |1blankname=Lieutenant |1namedata=Edgardo Grosso {{nowrap|(1983–1987)}}<br />[[Mario Negri]] {{nowrap|(1987–1991)}}<br />Edgardo Grosso {{nowrap|(1991–1995)}} |predecessor= [[Rubén Pellanda]] (''de facto'') |successor= [[Ramón Mestre]] |birth_date= {{Birth date|1931|10|18}} |birth_place= [[Río Tercero, Córdoba]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|08|23|1931|10|18}} | death_place =[[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]] | death_cause = | resting_place = |profession= Lawyer |party= [[Radical Civic Union]] |footnotes= }}
'''Eduardo César Angeloz''' (October 18, 1931 – August 23, 2017) was an Argentine politician. He was a presidential candidate and [[Governor of Córdoba (Argentine province)|Governor of Córdoba]] from 1983 to 1995.
Angeloz was born in [[Río Tercero, Córdoba|Río Tercero]], [[Córdoba Province, Argentina|Córdoba]], and received a law degree from the [[Universidad Nacional de Córdoba]]. He married Martha Marín, and the couple had two sons, Eduardo and Carlos, and a daughter, María Marta.
In 1953 Angeloz received his first [[Radical Civic Union]] Party mandate as President of the Youth Board in the city of [[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]]. In 1955 was appointed President of the Provincial Youth Board and President of the city Party in 1963. The same year Angeloz was also elected as Provincial Senator, and became the UCR [[Whip (politics)|whip]] in the house. From 1972 to 1982 he served as President of the Party Provincial Board.
In 1973 Angeloz was elected a national [[Argentine Senate|Senator]]. In 1976, after the [[National Reorganization Process|coup d'état]], he held a position in the [[Organization of American States]] In 1983 he was elected the 54th Governor of Córdoba for the 1983–1987 period and re-elected in 1987 for the period 1987–1991.
Angeloz was the UCR presidential candidate in the [[1989 Argentine general election|1989 elections]], but was defeated by [[Justicialist Party]] nominee [[Carlos Menem]]. He presented him as the [[neoliberal]] candidate in the election.<ref>{{cite book | title=Democracia y mercado: Viejas disputas, nuevas soluciones : El caso argentino | date=2009 | publisher=FLACSO Mexico | isbn=978-607-7629-18-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTXvAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22FREJUPO%22+%22derecha%22&pg=PA50 }}</ref> In 1991 he was re-elected as Governor for the 1991–1995 period, and from 1995 to 2001, he again served as a Senator. Shortly before being sworn in he was charged with [[embezzlement]], together with some relatives and close friends who had served in high public positions during his mandate. He was found not guilty in 1998. He died after complications from a hip-break fall combined with an undisclosed [[Complication (medicine)|pre-existing condition]] on 23 August 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarin.com |date=2017-08-23 |title=Murió Eduardo Angeloz, ex gobernador de Córdoba |url=https://www.clarin.com/politica/murio-eduardo-angeloz-ex-gobernador-cordoba_0_S1YglUs_b.html |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=www.clarin.com |language=es}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|}}
==Bibliography== *''El Tiempo de los argentinos''. EMECÉ editores, diciembre de1987 *''El Tiempo de la transición''. EMECÉ editores, abril de 1988 *''La propuesta de Angeloz: Ideas para el futuro argentino'' (Colección Controversia)
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