Marcelino Ugarte (1855–1929) was an Argentine jurist and politician, who served for two terms as governor of the Province of Buenos Aires.[1] He also served as deputy and national senator for the Province of Buenos Aires.[2]
He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Marcelino Ugarte and Adela Jerónima Lavalle, belonging to an aristocatric family of the City.[3] He was married to Carolina Tomkinson Alvear, daughter of Enrique Tomkinson, born in Endon, England, and Virginia de Alvear y Sáenz de la Quintanilla, a noble lady belonging to the family of Carlos María de Alvear.[4]
His father was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Nation during the presidency of Bartolomé Mitre.[5] By maternal line, he was a nephew grandson of Juan Lavalle, governor of Buenos Aires between 1828 and 1829, and descendant of Guillermo Ross, a Scottish soldier, who served as acting governor of Buenos Aires in the mid-18th century.[6]
