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Jaime Gerardo Roberto Marcelino María Ortiz Lizardi (September 24 1886 – July 15 1942) was President of Argentina from February 20 1938 to June 27 1942.Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires. As a student at the University of Buenos Aires he participated in an unsuccessful revolution in 1905. In 1909 he graduated from the university and became a lawyer. He became active in the Radical Civic Union and was elected to the Argentine National Congress in 1920.