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== 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 expelled, 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.
Like many other nineteenth century Argentines prominent in public life, he was a [[freemason]].<ref>The list includes [[Juan Bautista Alberdi]], [[Manuel Alberti]], [[Carlos María de Alvear]], [[Miguel de Azcuénaga]], [[Antonio González de Balcarce]], [[Manuel Belgrano]], [[Antonio Luis Beruti]], [[Juan José Castelli]], [[Domingo French]], [[Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid]], [[Francisco Narciso de Laprida]] , [[Juan Larrea]], [[Juan Lavalle]], [[Vicente López y Planes]], [[Bartolomé Mitre]], [[Mariano Moreno]], [[Juan José Paso]], [[Carlos Pellegrini]], [[Gervasio Antonio de Posadas]], [[Domingo Faustino Sarmiento]], and [[Justo José de Urquiza]]. [[José de San Martín]] is known to have been a member of the [[Lautaro Lodge]]; but whether the lodge was truly masonic has been debated: {{cite book|title=10,000 Famous Freemasons|last=Denslow|first=William R.|publisher=Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co Inc|location=Richmond, VA|year=1957|volume=1-4|page=<!--Not paginated; entries are in alphabetical order-->}}</ref>
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 anthem if not for the more militaristic Lopez.
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