Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (died 1829)

Cornelio Saavedra

Argentine military officer and statesman (1759–1829)

Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez was an Argentine military officer and statesman. He was instrumental in the May Revolution, the first step of Argentina's independence from Spain, and became the first head of state of the autonomous country that would become…