Evita Peron

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Evita Peron was the second wife of Argentina President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, at age 15 Evita made her way to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón in 1944 at a charity event in Buenos Aires. The two were married by the following year. In 1946 Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina, making Evita Perón First Lady of the nation. Over the course of the next six years, she became powerful within the Pro-Peronist trade unions, essentially for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also founded the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, and the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, Eva Perón expressed a desire to run for the office of Vice-President of Argentina. In this bid she received great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working class Argentines referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". However, opposition from the nation's military and elite, as well as her declining health, ultimately prevented Eva Perón's candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation."

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