President of Argentina. He was elected President of Argentina and governed between May 1, 1958 and on March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup d'état. By 1933 he had been arrested three times for being a leftist political activist, protesting against the government. He had been appointed to various offices through the following years. Starting his political career in 1946, he was elected national deputy for the city of Buenos Aires. In the 1951 elections. he joined the UCR presidential formula as a candidate for vice president. In 1954 he published the best-selling book, "Petroleum and Politics," which placed him in the public's eye. Frondizi was a staunch opponent of Juan Peron. In a failed attempt to overthrow President Peron's government, a group, which he was associated, made an aerial bombing at a public area, Plaza de Mayo, on June 16, 1955 killing 308 civilians. He was briefly arrested but released. On July 27, 1955 he made a 30-minute speech on the radio against Peron's government and leading his way to being elected in 1958 as President of Argentina. His first goal as President was to produce everything that was being imported including oil from American companies. He tried to mend fences between Cuba and the United States before the missile crises. During his term as president, the government was unstable as there were 1,566 attacks against the government with bombings and killing civilians, twenty-six military riots and six coup attempts. Eventually, he was arrested by the military on March 29, 1962, but refused to resign, kill himself, or leave Argentina. That week his image appeared on the cover of the American magazine, "Time." Without a trial, he was imprisoned until March of 1963, when he was transferred to a hotel. In total he was imprisoned for 18 months, preventing him from participating in the 1963 elections. At that point, he returned to his journalism endeavors and was only in the background politically. When Peron returned from exile, he was elected President in 1973 and organized a death squad, which murdered at least 600 civilians. On September 27, 1974, his brother, Silvio Frondizi, was kidnapped and murdered by right‐wing terrorists. Two years later, his only child Elena died. By the early 1980s, he was suffering with the early stages of Parkinson's Disease and later a stroke. In 1991 his wife died. His parents with their oldest two children immigrated from Italy to Argentina about 1890. Born the 13th of 14 children, he graduated from Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires in July of 1930. In 1933 he married Elena Luisa María Faggionato, who often wrote his speeches. The couple had a daughter.