11 Facts About Leopoldo Bravo

Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat.

Leopoldo Bravo graduated from the University of La Plata with a law degree in 1942.

Leopoldo Bravo was appointed charge d'affaires at the Argentine Embassy in Moscow, in 1946, and in 1953 he was appointed as Ambassador to the Soviet Union by President Juan Peron, succeeding Cantoni, his father.

Leopoldo Bravo was one of the few ambassadors to have had an interview with Joseph Stalin, as well as the last.

Leopoldo Bravo was elected Governor of San Juan with Peronist support in 1962, but President Arturo Frondizi was forced to annul the elections due to military and conservative objections to Peronism; he ran again in 1963, and took office, serving until 1966.

Leopoldo Bravo was a vice-presidential candidate on the ticket led by Brig.

Leopoldo Bravo was appointed governor of San Juan in 1982.

In 1983 his brother, Federico Leopoldo Bravo, succeeded him as ambassador in Moscow.

When democracy returned in 1983, Leopoldo Bravo was again elected governor; but a poor showing in the 1985 legislative elections led him to resign halfway through the term.

Leopoldo Bravo allied himself with President Carlos Menem, and his vote was decisive in the Senate approval of the 1993 Olivos Pact that allowed the President to stand for a second term.

Leopoldo Bravo died of an intestinal haemorrhage and cardiac arrest.