page_title: Héctor José Cámpora
section_title: From 1945 to 1970
hierarchical_section_title: Héctor José Cámpora / From 1945 to 1970
caption_attribution_description: Eva Duarte (Evita) llorando abraza a Perón. Acto 17 de octubre de 1951, en el balcon de la Casa Rosada que da a la Plaza de Mayo. A su izquierda, el ministro Ángel Borlenghi y el diputado Héctor Cámpora. Detrás Juan Duarte. Fuente: "Los últimos días de Eva Perón" (La Nación).
context_page_description: Héctor José Cámpora was an Argentine politician. A major figure of left-wing Peronism, Cámpora served briefly as President of Argentina from 25 May until 13 July 1973 in order to arrange for Perón to run for president in an election he subsequently won. The modern left-wing Peronist political youth organization La Cámpora is named after him. He was a dentist by trade.
context_section_description: Cámpora knew General Juan Perón when the latter visited San Andrés de Giles as minister of labour in 1944. After Perón was elected president in 1946, Cámpora led an independent coalition of labourists and radicals and won a seat in the house of representatives, which he presided during the period 1948–1952. He was commissioned for a diplomatic trip through 17 countries as plenipotentiary ambassador in 1953. He was arrested and indicted for corruption and embezzlement by the Revolución Libertadora which overthrew Perón in 1955. After fleeing the country in 1956, he returned three years later when all the charges were dropped.
caption: Cámpora was alongside with Evita during the 1951 joint ticket rally, unable to accept popular calls that she run for Vice-President.
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