Juan Gaudencio Kaiser

Juan Gaudencio Kaiser (16 September 1869 – 1 February 1952) was an Argentine businessman and politician of the National Democratic Party.

Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Luján, Buenos Aires, fleeing a yellow fever epidemic in the capital.

[1] Despite having formed part of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) during its early years, he would later become a member of the National Democratic Party, the country's main conservative party, as did many former UCR members who supported the gubernatorial candidacy of Bernardo de Irigoyen in 1898.

[1] As president of the National Chamber of Deputies, he attended the first Flag Day celebrations in Rosario in 1938.

[2] Kaiser fell from grace due to a bribery case in El Palomar in 1940, and he was declared guilty by a local court.