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== Early life ==
López began his primary studies in the San Francisco School, and later studied in the Real Colegio San Carlos, today the [[Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires]]. He obtained a doctorate of laws in the [[University of Chuquisaca]]. He served as a captain in the Patriotic Regiment during the [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata|English invasions]]. After the Argentine victory he composed a poem entitled ''El triunfo argentino'' (The Argentine Triumph).
== Political life == He participated in the Cabildo Abierto of May 22, 1810 and supported the formation of the [[Primera Junta]]. He had good relations with [[Manuel Belgrano]]. When the royalist members of the city government of Buenos Aires were expulsed, he was elected mayor of the city; he was an enemy of the party of [[Cornelio Saavedra]] and one of the creators of the [[First Triumvirate (Argentina)|First Triumvirate]], of which he was the Treasurer. López was a member of the Constituent Assembly of year XIII, representing Buenos Aires. At the request of the Assembly, he wrote the lyrics to a "patriotic march", which eventually became the [[Argentine National Anthem]]. It was a military march, whose music was composed by the [[Catalan people|Catalan]] [[Blas Parera]]; it was approved on March 11, 1813. The first public reading was at a [[tertulia]] on May 7 in the house of [[Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson]]. It displaced a different march, written by [[Esteban de Luca]], which would have been the hymn if not for the more militaristic Lopez.
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López participated in the government of [[Carlos María de Alvear]], and with his fall he was sent to prison. He held a few more public offices, and was then named Secretary of the Constituent Congress of 1825, and, a little later, minister for the president [[Bernardino Rivadavia]].
After the scandal of negotiations with the [[Brazilian Empire]], Rivadavia resigned the presidency. In his place, López was elected as caretaker, signing the dissolution of the Congress and calling elections in Buenos Aires. The new governor, [[Manuel Dorrego]] took charge of the ministry; this unified the federalists. When Dorrego fell from grace and was executed by firing squad by [[Juan Lavalle]], Lopez was exiled to [[Uruguay]].
== Late years ==
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