Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ricardo Balbín (born on July 19, 1904 in Buenos Aires - died September 9, 1981 in La Plata) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973. Ricardo Balbín was born to Encarnación Morales Balbín and Cipriano Balbín in the city of Buenos Aires, in 1904. The family moved first to Azul, and later to Ayacucho when he was still a child. In 1909 his mother had to be moved to Spain to treat a serious illness. In 1916, when Hipólito Yrigoyen became president, Balbín started high-school at the Colegio San José. In 1921 he started his university studies in medicine, but abandoned it shortly after due to financial dfficulties. In 1922 at just 18 years old, Balbín joined the ruling Radical Civic Union, and moved to La Plata, where the student atmosphere gave him the incentive to enroll in Law School at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, obtaining a juris doctor in 1927.