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Juan Perón Before the Presidency — Signed Argentine Ministry of War Document, December 1943
Buenos Aires, 14 December 1943 · Single original typed sheet · Spanish · Signed in ink · Official stamps and filing marks
Catalogue details
Description
A document from the year that brought Juan Domingo Perón into the centre of Argentine government. Issued by the Secretaría of Argentina's Ministerio de Guerra and addressed to the Director General del Personal, this original wartime-era administrative directive bears Perón’s ink signature above the printed identification “JUAN PERÓN / CORONEL / JEFE DE LA SECRETARÍA.”
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Date
- 14 December 1943
- Place
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Format
- Single original typed sheet
- Language
- Spanish
- Signature
- Signed in ink; official stamps and filing marks
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
The letter directs the recipient to reactivate an existing personnel file under Decree No. 9469/43 of 21 September 1943, legislation relating to the recognition of military service for retirement-pension purposes. The administrative language is routine; its historical significance lies in the signatory and the moment of its issue. Perón had assumed leadership of the War Ministry Secretariat in June 1943, in the aftermath of the military coup, before becoming president in 1946.
Documentary details
Typed heading “MINISTERIO DE GUERRA / SECRETARÍA”; reference C.E. S. Nro. 3394/42 (M.G.); dated Buenos Aires, 14 DIC. 1943. The sheet has a circular Ministry seal beside the signature, a second departmental stamp in the upper right and several manuscript and stamped processing endorsements extending into 1944. An upper inscription appears to identify an earlier file association with Juan Domingo Perón, though its exact meaning remains unverified.
Historical interest
Unlike presidential-era autographs, this example places Perón within the machinery of the Argentine military administration in 1943. It is an original surviving bureaucratic record of the period from which his subsequent political career emerged, rather than a later commemorative signature.
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