| Honorific Prefix: | Brigadier General |
| Roberto Marcelo Levingston | |
| Order: | 42nd |
| Office: | President of Argentina |
| Term Start: | 18 June 1970 |
| Term End: | 21 March 1971 |
| Vicepresident: | Vacant |
| Predecessor: | Juan Carlos Onganía |
| Successor: | Alejandro Agustín Lanusse |
| Birth Date: | 10 January 1920 |
| Birth Place: | San Luis, Argentina |
| Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Spouse: | Betty Nelly Andrés |
| Party: | Independent |
| Children: | 3 |
| Profession: | Military |
| Signature: | Roberto Marcelo Levingston (firma).jpg |
| Branch: | Argentine Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1938–1971 |
| Rank: | Brigadier general |
| Commands: | Argentine Army |
| Battles: | Argentine Revolution |
Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (10 January 1920 – 17 June 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was the 42nd President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971.[1] [2]
Levingston was born in San Luis Province, and graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1941.
On 18 December 1943, Levingston married Betty Nelly Andrés (born 4 May 1926) and had two sons and one daughter, Roberto, Maria and Alberto.
Levingston's military expertise included intelligence and counterinsurgency, and he took the presidency of Argentina on 18 June 1970, in a military coup that deposed Juan Carlos Onganía over his ineffective response to the Montoneros and other guerillas.[2] His regime was marked by a protectionist economic policy that did little to overcome the inflation and recession that the country was undergoing at the time,[1] and by the imposition of the death penalty against terrorists and kidnappers.[2] In response to renewed anti-government rioting in Córdoba and to the labor crisis under his leadership, he was deposed on 21 March 1971, by another military junta led by Alejandro Lanusse.[1] [2]
He died on 17 June 2015, at the age of 95. He is the longest-lived President of Argentina.[3]