Nicolás Repetto

Nicolás Repetto (1871 to 1965) was an Argentine physician who also led the Socialist Party of Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires, he received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1895 and trained at the Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland. He began practice as a pediatric surgeon in 1897 while teaching at the university medical school, and in 1906 took part in the charity emergency clinic run by the newspaper La Prensa. He joined the Socialist Party in 1900, helped found the cooperative El Hogar Obrero, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1912, where he worked to expose abusive labor conditions on plantations. He was the party candidate for president in 1922, ran as vice-presidential candidate in 1931 and again sought the presidency in 1937, and died in Buenos Aires aged 94.