   bartolomÃ© mitre martÃ­nez (26 june 1821 â 19 january 1906) was an argentine statesman, military figure, and author. he was the president of argentina from 1862 to 1868. ==life and times== mitre was born in buenos aires to a greek argentine family originally named mitropoulos (bulgarian revolutionary, michail dumbalakov claims in his memoirs that mitre stems from a macedonian bulgarian family from the bitola region, as his family name mitre also indicates). as a liberal, he was an opponent of juan manuel de rosas, and he was forced into exile. he worked as a soldier and journalist in uruguay as a supporter of general fructuoso rivera, who named mitre lieutenant coronel of the uruguayan army in 1846. mitre later lived in bolivia, peru, and chile, and in the latter country, he collaborated with legal scholar and fellow argentine exile juan bautista alberdi in the latter's periodical, el comercio of valparaÃ­so. thumb|left|200px|bartolomÃ© mitre at age 33, 1854. mitre returned to argentina after the defeat of rosas. at the 1852 battle of caseros. he was a leader of the revolt of buenos aires against justo josÃ© de urquiza's federal system, and was appointed to important posts in the provincial government after buenos aires seceded from the confederation. ==president of argentina== thumb|bartolomÃ© mitre, perhaps around age 49, 1870. left|thumb|mitre's official portrait, 1861. the civil war of 1859 resulted in mitre's defeat by urquiza at the battle of cepeda, in 1860. issues of customs revenue sharing were settled, and buenos aires reentered the argentine confederation. victorious at the 1861 battle of pavÃ³n, however, mitre obtained important concessions from the national army, notably the amendment of the constitution to provide for indirect elections through an electoral college.historical dictionary of argentina. london: scarecrow press, 1978. in october 1862, mitre 
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