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voters, and he was elected governor in 1881. Facing ongoing secessionist pressures from his constituency, Governor Rocha proposed the creation of a new provincial capital in replacement of the city of Buenos Aires, which was federalized as the nation's capital in 1880. The proposal, useful to the mollification of the province's independence-leaning gentry, was quickly approved by
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in 1897 and stayed on as its president until the school's nationalization in 1905. His additional responsibilities as
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request in 2011, however, claiming that Rocha was not a practicing
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Juan José Dardo Rocha was born to Juana Arana and
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