Eduardo Francisco Mac Loughlin

Eduardo Francisco Mac Loughlin (* 1918 ; † 1983 ), occasionally also written McLoughlin , was an Argentine military, politician and diplomat.

Military and diplomatic career

Eduardo Francisco Mac Loughlin was part of the second generation of an Irish family who immigrated to Argentina from County Wexford . He joined the Argentine Army in 1937 and was trained as an Air Force officer. In 1947 he was sent to the embassy in London as a military attaché . In 1956 he became an attaché in Washington, DC In 1957, Mac Loughlin was briefly Air Force Minister in the government of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu as successor to Julio César Krause. From August 1966 to June 1970 he was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s in London .

minister

As Brigadier General, Mac Loughlin was Home Secretary in the government of General Roberto Marcelo Levingston from June to October 1970 . From June 1972 to May 1973 he was Foreign Minister in the government of General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse . During his tenure, he negotiated - ultimately unsuccessfully - with the British government about a transfer of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ James Patrick Byrne, Philip Coleman, Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, p. 320
3. ↑ ABC of June 19, 1970, report on the swearing-in of the cabinet [2]
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
1956–1957: Comodoro Julio César Krause	Ministerio Secretaría de Estado en el Departamento de Aeronáutica 1957	1957–1958: Comodoro Jorge Horacio Landaburu
Alberto María Candioti	Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1966 to 1970	Manuel de Anchorena
Luis María de Pablo Pardo	Argentine Foreign Minister June 22, 1972 to May 25, 1973	Juan Carlos Puig