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Key facts
- Appointed by
- Military junta
- Vice president
- None
- Preceded by
- Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean (interim)
- Succeeded by
- Raúl Alfonsín
- Born
- Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone , ( 1928-01-21 ) 21 January 1928, Morón , Argentina
- Died
- 7 March 2018 (2018-03-07) (aged 90), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Spouse
- Nilda Raquel Belén ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 8 January 1953</span>"}]]}'>1953 ; died 13 March 2013</span>"}]]}'>2013 )
- Children
- Cristina Raquel , Mabel Beatriz , Carlos Daniel
- Profession
- Military
- Allegiance
- Argentina
- Branch service
- Argentine Army
- Years of service
- 1947–1981
- Rank
- Division general (pre-1991 epaulette)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Morón
- Place of death
- Buenos Aires Province
- Occupation
- military officer
- Position held
- President of Argentina
- Educated at
- Nation Military College
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Christianity
- Conflict
- dirty war in Argentina
- Military branch
- Argentine Army
- Military rank
- divisional general
- Image
- Reynaldo Bignone-2.jpg
- Work location
- Buenos Aires
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
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- Commons category
- Reynaldo Bignone
- date of birth
- 1928-01-21
- name in native language
- Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone Ramayón
- date of death
- 2018-03-07
- cause of death
- sepsis
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone (21 January 1928 – 7 March 2018) was an Argentine general who served as the de facto President of Argentina from 1 July 1982 to 10 December 1983, the last president to serve under the National Reorganization Process. In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of persons suspected of opposing the government during the Dirty War, and would receive additional convictions and eventually a life sentence in the time afterwards as well.
He ordered the destruction of all documentation on the disappeared.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reynaldo Bignone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.