he pursued a progressive agenda for the standards of the day, enacting an ambitious program of labor and social legislation that included an 8-hour workday and a minimum wage (some of the nation's first reforms of their type). These policies put him at odds with not only the landed gentry; but also President Yrigoyen, who sought to maintain cordial relations with the then-agrarian country's powerful landowning elite. Lencinas, instead, believed the latter group was co-opting the UCR by joining its ranks, and advocated for Yrigoyen's break with what he termed "Fair-weather Radicals" (particularly the most prominent of these at the time, the President of the Senate, Leopoldo Melo). Following Lencinas' convalescence from a sudden pulmonary illness, Yrigoyen intervened once again, removing the governor on December 24. The appointed Federal Receiver, Dr. Tomás de Veyga, resigned, however, and his successor, Dr. Perfecto Araya, reinstated Lencinas as governor. The ensuing struggle with Delfín Álvarez, Lencinas' former Vice-Governor and now nemesis, as well as with the Legislature and the courts, proved too much for Lencinas, who died in Mendoza on January 20, 1920. His son, Carlos Washington Lencinas, was elected governor in 1922. References 1859 births 1920 deaths Argentine people of Catalan descent People from Mendoza Province National University of Córdoba alumni 19th-century Argentine lawyers Argentine activists Argentine newspaper founders Radical Civic Union politicians Governors of Mendoza Province Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Mendoza