Juan Gaudencio Kaiser

Juan Gaudencio Kaiser (16 September 1869 – 1 February 1952) was an Argentine businessman and politician of the National Democratic Party. He served as intendente (mayor) of Luján, Buenos Aires, from 1909 to 1910, and later served as President of the National Chamber of Deputies from 1938 to 1940.

Early life Kaiser was born on 16 September 1869 in Buenos Aires. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Luján, Buenos Aires, fleeing a yellow fever epidemic in the capital. He attended high school in France, before returning to Argentina in 1886. Back in Luján, Kaiser married Francisca Echandi, daughter of a carpenter.

Kaiser worked as a primary school teacher before joining the Radical Revolution of 1893. In 1897, he was appointed as secretary of the magistrate's court of Luján. He served a number of times as member of the Luján City Council, eventually becoming its president. In 1904, he founded La Opinión, which remained the main newspaper in Luján for some time.

Kaiser fell from grace due to a bribery case in El Palomar in 1940, and he was declared guilty by a local court. He later went into exile in Uruguay. President Juan Perón granted him pardon shortly before his death in 1952, in Luján.