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maining in office until April, 191 5, where he 

 served as Vice Chairman and later Chair- 

 man of the Committee on Municipal and 

 Provincial Affairs and Vice Chairman of 

 the Committee on Foreign Relations. In 

 191 7 he returned to Congress to represent 

 the same district. He is an active and 

 strenuous member of the Conservative 

 party. 



Dr. Benard has contributed occasional 

 articles to various professional magazines 

 and published in the Revista del Foro his 

 doctor's thesis : Principios fundamentales de 

 Derecho International Privados consignados 

 en nuestro Codigo Civil. 



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