Ramon Agustin Poch
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1890-1965

1908 Joins the Naval Military School
1910 Promoted to 1st Brigadier (Standard Bearer)
1911 Boards the President Sarmiento Frigate as cadet. Is awarded the Royal Order Silver Medal of Isabel the Catholic of Spain.
1912 Graduates first of his class from Naval Military School, specialized in submarines. Promoted to midshipman. Awarded a diploma and a golden medal by the Pro-Patria National Association.
1914 Promoted to Frigate Ensign
1916 Promoted to Vessel? Ensign
1918 By General Order N.50, he is sent to the US Navy Submarine School at New London.
1919 Attends the US Navy Torpedo School at Newport.
1928 Sent to serve in the Italian Navy, where he undergoes practical instruction in submarines. Becomes Chief of the Acquisition Committee, arranging for the purchase of three Cavallini class submarines for the Argentinian Navy.
1930 Promoted to Frigate Captain
1932 Commands the Santiago del Estero (S-3) Submarine.
1933 Commands the submarine group and the coastguard ship “General Belgrano”.
1935 Promoted to Vessel? Captain.
1939 Awarded the Victory Medal by the USA for his actions during the Great War.
1942 Promoted to Rear Admiral.
1945 Promoted to Vice admiral.
1946 Retires.
1965 Dies.

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Alberto Teisaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Teisaire

1891-1962
Navy Officer
Politician

1912 Graduated from Navy School. Is accepted in the USA Naval Academy.
1913-1918? Commissioned as a submarine officer in the US Navy during the Great War. Eventually returns to Argentina.
1919-1938? Teaches in the Argentine Naval Academy. At some point leads the Naval Requisitions Department and heads Argentine Delegations in the USA and Europe. Head of the Navy’s River Fleet.
1940 Assistant Director in the Navy Mechanics’ School, specialized in navigation and hydrology.
1944 Becomes Navy Secretary and Interior Minister.
1945 Retires as Rear Admiral to pursues political career.
1946-1962 Has a somewhat successful political career. Forced to resign by a coup and denounce president Peron (close friend). Dies in 1962 or is killed by Peronist aligned guerrilla, depends on the source.

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Fidel Anadon
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Anad%C3%B3n

1895-1981
Navy Man
Navy Minister

1915 Graduates from Naval School.
1927-1929 Specializes in submarines in Taranto, Italy.
1930-1942 Commands many ships in the Argentine Navy, based on Puerto Belgrano.
1943 Is director of the Mechanics’ Navy School during the coup. Defends it against coup rebels until all conscripts manage to escape. The fight lasts for 45 minutes and takes the lives of an officer and four petty officers of the Navy. De Facto President Ramirez names him governor of Tierra del Fuego Sea Department. Promotes the creation of industry in the area. Creates the Tierra del Fuego National Park. Has several hotels and hostels built. Appointed Captain of the General Belgrano Armored Cruiser and commander of the Submarine Base at Mar del Plata.
1944 Appointed commander of the Naval Fleet, promoted to Rear Admiral and short time later to Vice-Admiral.
1946 Named Navy Minister by Peron, promoted to Admiral.
1947-1948 Named War Minister and Foreign Affairs Ministers. President Peron awards him with a medal for Loyalty.
1949-1980 No data.
1981 Dies.

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Hector Vernego Lima
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Vernengo_Lima

1889-1984
Navy Man
Politician

1911 Graduates from Navy School as Midshipman and first of his class, awarded diploma and Golden medal. After graduation boards the Sarmiento Frigate and sails 24.266 nautical miles in eight months.
1917 Joins the USA Navy as ensign during the Great War, his post is in the New York Battleship, then transferred to the South Carolina as Frigate Lieutenant. On both ships he’s artillery officer. He is decorated for his service and comes to meet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
1934 Having been promoted to Frigate Captain; he is part of the faculty of the recently inaugurated Navy War School.
1938 Appointed Headmaster of the Navy War School.
1939 During WW2 he embarks aboard the San Francisco Battleship and helps its fleet pass through the Magellan Strait without losing a single ship.
1940 Appointed Headmaster of the Navy Military School, creates new courses of study.
1944 Commands the La Argentina Cruiser. Interim president of the Naval Center.
1945 Chief Officer in the Navy General Staff. Warns the Navy Minister about the presence of German submarines in the south Atlantic. Him and a group of nine other admirals demand elections be held. Later that year he’d become Navy Minister and Minister of Justice and Public Education. Secretes Peron away to Island Martin Garcia to protect him from would be assassins under orders from Ferrell.
1956 Appointed part of the Superior Honor Tribunal of the War Navy.
1959 Is sent to Europe in the argentine naval commission even though he’s retired.
1960-1983 Given medals by the USA and Paraguay. Dean of the War Navy.
1984 Dies.

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Leon Scasso
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Scasso

1882-1954
Navy Man

1900 Graduates from Naval School
1901-1920 Serves as artillery chief on the armored cruiser Belgrano. Commands the Destroyer Jujuy, target selector and chief of navigation on the battleship Rivadavia, commands the Transport 1st de Mayo, commands the Destroyer La Plata, first aid of the II Training Division.
1921-1923 leads the naval committee to Europe, where he buys vessels and airplanes. He’s a delegate during the London Hydrographic Conference. Naval attaché on Britain.
1926 Promoted to Navy Captain.
1927-1932 Directed the Officer School. Delegate in the Disarmament Conference of Ginevra. Upon his return is assigned to the Chief Staff.
1933 Promoted to Rear Admiral
1936-1937 Promoted to Vice-Admiral. Commands the Navy Sea Fleet, including all the battleships. Represents Argentina during the coronation of the British King.
1938-1939 Navy Minister. Leads several good will missions to Chile, Peru, England, France and Germany, the last three with the battleship division. Is promoted to Admiral.
1940 Resigns as Navy Minister.
1942 Retires from active duty.
1943 Designated as federal interventor in Cordoba.
1944 After Argentina breaks relations with the Axis he resigns.
1954 Dies.

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Pedro Segundo Casal
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Segundo_Casal

1879-1957
Navy Man
Navy Minister

1896 Enters the Naval Military School.
1899 Travels on the Presidente Sarmiento Frigate’s first voyage.
1900-1936 Servers in many different vessels. Teaches at the Superior School of War, the Naval School and the Naval Mechanics’ School, the latter he was director of. Funds the Ornithology Society of del Plata. Serves as Navy Minister during president Justo’s first months of government. Participates in the Chaco Boreal War, leading the fleet which escorted Argentinian aid and supplies to Paraguay. Writes a book on the Japanese Navy.
1937 Retires, but continues his geographic studies and does valuable contributions to oceanography and astronomy. Founding Member of the National Academy of Geography and president of the National Sanmartiniano Institute.
1957 Dies.

ADDED, picture is not historically accurate.

Rodolfo Gonzales Arzac

1915 Graduates from Navy School, specialized in submarines.
1932-1936 Commands the Salta Submarine
1937-1938 Commands the Submarine Group and the Coastguard Belgrano.
1942 Retires as Frigate Captain
1969 Dies.

DISCARDED.

Saadi Ernesto Bonnet

1915 Graduates from Navy School, specialized in submarines.
1932-1934 Commands the Santa Fe submarine.
1934-1936 Commands the Submarine and coastguard group Belgrano.
1940-1941 Commands the Submarine and coastguard group Belgrano.
1947 Retires as Navy Captain.
1979 Dies.

DISCARDED.

Eleazar T. Videla
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar_Videla

1881-1960
Navy Man
Navy Minister
Public Works Minister
Federal Interventor of Buenos Aires

1904 Graduates from Navy School as Midshipman.
1905-1911 Part of the chief staff of the Patria cruiser, the Ushuaia transport, the Independence Battleship and many others.
1912 In charge of receiving the new canons for the Moreno battleship, built on the USA, ship in which he’d serve afterwards.
1915 Transferred to the Caribaldi cruiser and then to the Rivadavia battleship. In all this posts he distinguished himself as a brilliant officer.
1918 Commands the Uruguay corvette.
1919 Chief of Armaments on the Rivadavia Battleship.
1926 Captain of the Sarmiento Training Frigate.
1927-1932 Chief of the Second Naval Division, member of the Navy Chief Staff, General Director of Requisitions and Chief of the Buenos Aires Arsenal. Leads the first exploration fleet.
1933 Promoted to Navy Captain. Named Navy Minister. Orders the construction of the La Argentina cruiser in British dockyards and seven Buenos Aires Class destroyers. Empowers country naval production as well.
1934-38 Funds the Naval War School and readies the installations for the Naval Mechanics’ School. Builds a new Naval Military School building. Focus on expanding naval bases to improve the fleets deployment range, specially the Bahia Blanca Naval Base. Created the Shore Artillery and Coast Guard Direction, as well as two regiments for the last, their mission being protecting naval installations and fuel deposits. Gives a strong push forwards to Naval Aviation, buying new units and training a good number of pilots, as well as building new airbases. Designated Minister of War for a short time, then Public Works Minister, starts the construction of the national network of roads.
1939-1940 Ambassador on Paraguay.
1941 Called back to be federal interventor on Buenos Aires.
1957 Presides the ceremony remembering the hundred-year anniversary of Admiral Guillermo Brown.
1960 Dies.

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Mario Fincati
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Fincati

1965-1962
Navy Man
Navy Minister

1906 Graduates from Navy Military School, then goes to Officer School.
1907-1917 Leader of the Second Cadet Corp of the Navy School. Officer of Infantry and Boarding? On the Presidente Sarmiento Frigate’s 15th training trip. Chief of Artillery on the Rivadavia Battleship, chief of the artillery apprentice corp on the Almirante Brown school ship.
1918-1920 Secretary to the Navy Minister. Commander of the Almirante Brown, chief of navigation of the Rivadavia. Worked as Director of Navigation and Communications and navy attache to the argentine navy on Brazil.
1927 Commands the Rivadavia. He’ll later be chief of personnel at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. Leader of the lighthouse division of the General Directorate of Navigation and Communications.
1930-1933 Commands the Armored Cruiser Garibaldi, director of the Machines and Signals School, sub director of the Navy School, chief of Hydrographic Services, secretary to the Navy Minister.
1934-1937 Commander of the Moreno Battleship, leads the cruiser division of the sea fleet, naval attache to the argentine embassy on Britain and chief of the naval committee in charge of overseeing the construction of the La Argentina cruiser and seven destroyers.
1939 Leads the River Fleet
1940 Leads the Sea Fleet.
1941-1942 Navy Minister. Puts forth a project to explore the Antarctic, which was carried out by the 1st of Mayo.
1943 Drafts a decree to remove General Pablo Ramires as War Minister and replace him with himself. This would become the detonator for a coup which caused all of Castillo’s ministers, including himself, to be removed.
1944 Retires
1946 Accused of collaborating with the Nazis by the USA ambassador in order to pressure against Peron’s candidacy.
1962 Dies.

ADDED, no picture though. Used navy insignia as portrait for now.

Abelardo Pantin
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelardo_Pant%C3%ADn

1893-1985
Navy Man
Navy Minister

1912 Graduated from Naval Military School, was awarded gold medal.
1913-1937 Serves on the San Martin and Garibaldi Battleship, Commands the Azopardo and Golonndrina avisos and then becomes part of the crew of the Almirante Brown and Rivadavia battleships. Takes part in the hydrographic mission to San Blas and Anegada bays. Commands the Rio Negro Transport and the Ministro Ezcurra Oil Tanker, chief officer in the naval commission to the USA and sub director of the Petty Officer School.
1937-1942 Commands the tracker fleet, chief staff on the Sea Fleet, secretary to the navy minister to Leon Scasso. Commands the La Argentina Cruiser and Moreno Battleship.
1943 Promoted to Rear Admiral, chief of the general staff of the navy fleet and later on Chief of the entire Navy.
1944 Commands the Sea Fleet, second to power only to the minister.
1945 Doesn’t participate in Peron’s arrest. Negotiates Vernego Lima’s resignation and convinces Farrell of not taking action against him.
1946 Keeps out of politics until Peron is elected, when he files in his resignation letter and retires as Vice-Admiral.
1985 Dies.

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Saba H. Sueyro
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sab%C3%A1_H._Sueyro

1889-1943
Navy Man
De Facto Vicepresident

1941 heads a diplomatic mission to the USA seeking military help. Arrives at Washington a few days after Pearl Harbor attack, which changed Argentine-USA relationships for the worse.
1943 Forms part of the GOU. He’s chosen as vice-president but dies shortly after.
Military Rank: Rear Admiral.

DISCARDED.

Carlos Daireaux
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Daireaux

1871-1957
Navy Man
Navy Minister

1890 Graduates from the Brest Naval School as Midshipman. Serves in the French navy’s Mediterranean fleet.
1891 Serves in the Dahomey Landing Campaign.
1895 Serves in the Madagascar Campaign, commands landing infantry troops on land. Is awarded for his service by the French Navy Minister.
1896 Retires from French Navy and enters Argentinian Navy.
1897-1899 Serves in many ships, including the San Martin Battleship, where President Roca would visit Rio de Janeiro and meet with president Campos Sales.
1901-1903 Navy attaché to the argentine embassy in London, supervises the construction of munitions to be sent to Argentina made in Newcastle.
1904-1909 Serves in several posts, does hydrographic works and shore surveys on the austral sea, teaches in the Navy Academy.
1910-1911 Stays at England supervising the construction of destroyers for the Argentine Navy.
1912-15 Commands the Sarmiento Frigate School Ship.
1916-1917 Chief of the Naval Commission to the USA and naval attaché to the embassy on Washington. At his return commands the Rivadavia and then the Belgrano battleships.
1918 As commander of the Rivadavia he is ordered to New York where he’ll load 17 million dollars’ worth of gold and transport it to Argentina.
1923 Commands the San Martin Battleship. Promoted to Rear Admiral.
1924 Commands the entire Sea Fleet, later becomes Chief of the Navy General Staff.
1925 Named assistant to the president of Chile, Arturo Alessandri. Named personal bodyguard of the Prince of Wales, for which he is awarded the Knight Commander rank of the Victoria Order. Commands the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base
1929 Promoted to Vice-Admiral, retires.
1930 Assigned as federal interventor to the province of Jujuy.
1931 Navy Minister
1937-1939 President of the Naval Center and the Argentine Naval League. Awarded the Order of Merit from Chile and the Grand Knight Officer of the Legion d’honneur of France.
1957 Dies.

ADDED, even though he retired in 1929, he’s still active in the Navy so it’s plausible he could be recruited again for service. Also… come on, look at the service sheet!