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manuel blanco encalada
was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President -
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Manuel Blanco Encalada
was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President -
ramon freire
A new revolution brought him back to power on January 25, 1827 as Provisional Presidente. After order was restored, he resigned again on February 5, but his resignation was rejected by Congress, who proceeded to confirm him as President on February 15. He finally resigned on May 5, 1827. -
Francisco Antonio Pinto
He was twice President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.
In 1827, due to the resignation of the President Agustín Eyzaguirre, General Ramón Freire was elected President, while he was elected as Vice President. When General Freire himself resigned on May 5, 1827, General Pinto took over the position as Accidental President. As such he participated in the drafting of the Constitution of 1828. A new presidential election was called in May 1829. General Pinto was the clear winner out of 9 candidat -
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Francisco Antonio Pinto
In 1827, due to the resignation of the President Agustín Eyzaguirre, General Ramón Freire was elected President, while he was elected as Vice President. When General Freire himself resigned on May 5, 1827, General Pinto took over the position as Accidental President. As such he participated in the drafting of the Constitution of 1828. A new presidential election was called in May 1829. General Pinto was the clear winner out of 9 candidates, with 118 electoral votes (29,06%), and was proclaimed -
Jose Joaquin Prieto Vial
José Joaquín Prieto Vial (August 20, 1786 - November 22, 1854) was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841 -
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Jose juaquin Prieto Vial
1831, rapidly replaced by Prieto himself on April 10. On September 18, 1831, Prieto was finally able to take over the job as elected President for a first term of five years
uring his 10-year long presidency, Prieto expanded the governmental power and laid the foun
1833 a new constitution was passed, which - with a few amendments - would be valid until 1925. It provided for a 5-year long term of office for the president, who could be re-elected only once. The president received much authority. -
Manuel Bulnes Prieto
Manuel Bulnes Prieto (December 25, 1799 – October 18, 1866) was a Chilean military and political figure.
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Manuel Bulnes Prieto
His presidencies were characterised by educational and cultural expansion, supported by the encouragement of foreign intellectuals to come to Chile. The National Institute was reformed and several junior schools were established along with the José Abelardo Núñez Upper School. In Santiago the University of Chile was founded during his watch, in 1842 -
Manuel Montt Torres
Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres (September 4, 1809 – September 21, 1880) was a Chilean statesman and scholar. He was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. -
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Manuel Montt Torres
In 1851 Montt won the presidency, but the liberals thought his election was fraudulent and instigated an armed revolt, the Revolution of 1851, which was quickly subdued. Montt represented the conservative oligarchy and was authoritarian and inflexible in his beliefs, but he also worked for the economic and social progress of his nation. He angered the conservatives when he asserted the state's right of patronage in Chile's Roman Catholic Church and when he supported the abolition of restrictions -
José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano
He was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871. -
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
He was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876.
He was made a deputy in parliament at an early age, and took some part in the parliamentary debates. In 1860 he was made chief of the province of Santiago, and introduced many reforms. In 1862, during Pérez's administration, he became secretary of justice and of public instruction; and in 1865, during the Chincha Islands War with Spain, he was secretary of war and the navy. -
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Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
In 1871 Errázuriz became president of the republic of Chile, and introduced liberal reforms of great importance to the country, tending toward the secularization of public instruction and freedom of worship. He amended the constitution of 1833 by means of a law which was very much discussed in congress, abolished ecclesiastical privileges, and built several railways in the northern and southern parts of the country. He also organized several exhibitions of industry and art, the most important be -
Aníbal Pinto Garmendia
(March 15, 1825 - June 9, 1884) He was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881 -
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Aníbal Pinto Garmendia
His government started under the weight of the worst Chilean economic crisis of the 19th century. This was made worse by the floods of 1876, that laid waste to the nascent infrastructure. An earthquake on May 9, 1877, completed the destruction. At this juncture, he declared the non-convertibility of the currency, a measure that prevented a run on the banks and saved the public credit, but caused him the enmity of the opposition. Nonetheless, the principal crisis of his administration was the ou -
Domingo Santa María
was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.
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José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández.
(July 19, 1840 – September 18, 1891) He was the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile.[1] While he was president, his political disagreements with the Chilean congress, led to the Chilean Civil War of 1891, at the end of which he committed suicide. -
Jorge Montt Álvarez
was vice admiral of the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.
Admiral Jorge Montt had been the head of this revolutionary committee, and he acted as president of the provisional government when the administration of the country changed hands after the victory of the Congressional party. An election was then immediately ordered for the choice of a president of the republic and for representatives in the senate and chamber of deputies. Admiral Montt, as head of the executive power -
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
He was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 and his death in 1901. Federico Errázuriz was of Basque descent.[1] -
Germán Riesco Errázuriz.
He was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906. The Valparaiso earthquake had been announced ten days earlier by the chief of the Navy Metheorological Office. August 16, 1906 started as a very clear day, but in the afternoon started to drizzle. As the sun was setting, and when most of the people were having their suppers, came the first shock. It lasted for about 4 minutes. -
Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt
He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910. His conservative government furthered railroad and manufacturing activities but ignored pressing social and labour problems. -
Ramón Barros Luco
He was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915. -
Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui
He previously served as senator for Valdivia Province (1900-1906) and for Concepción Province (1906-1915). after that he was President of Chile between 1915 and 1920. -
Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma
he was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1925. -
Emiliano Figueroa Larraín
He was President of Chile from December 23, 1925 until his resignation on May 10, 1927. He also served as Acting president for a few months on 1910. -
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
He was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as dictator between 1927 and 1931 and as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958. -
Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez
He was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as president of Chile between 1931 and 1932. -
Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma
He served twice as the President of Chile ,
1932 until 1938. -
Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941 -
Juan Antonio Ríos Morales
He was a Chilean political figure, and President of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during the height of World War II. He died in office. -
Gabriel González Videla
He was a Chilean politician. He was a deputy and senator in the Chilean Congress and was President of Chile from 1946 to 1952. He also helped draft the current Chilean constitution -
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
He served as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958. -
Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez
He was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970 being defeated by Salvador Allende. He was the son of Arturo Alessandri, who was president from 1920 to 1925 and again from 1932 to 1938. -
Eduerdo Frei Montalva.
He was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 28th president of Chile from 1964 to 1970 -
Salvador Allende Gossens.
Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race, formally elected by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority.
Allende adopted the policy of nationalization of industries and collectivization. On 11 September 1973 the military coup -
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte
He served as the president of Chile between 1974 and 1990.
He was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981 and President of the Republic from 1974 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990.[2] -
Patricio Aylwin Azócar
He served as the president of Chile between 1990 to 1994 .
Is a Chilean Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and former senator. He was the first president of Chile after democracy was restored in 1990. -
Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación coalition for the 2009 presidential election, but was narrowly defeated. His father was Eduardo Frei Montalva who was President of Chile from 1964 to 1970. -
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar
is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have ruled Chile since 1990. -
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010. She was the first female president of her country. In September 2010 Bachelet was appointed as the head of UN Women by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. -
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique
is a Chilean businessman and politician. He was elected President of Chile in January 2010, taking office in 11 th March 2010. Piñera ran for President of Chile in the 2009-2010 election. Since August 2009, he led in opinion polls, competing with Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Marco Enríquez-Ominami and Jorge Arrate; all of whom are left-of-center candidates. In the election of December 13, 2009, Piñera placed first in the results by obtaining 44.05% of the votes, while Frei placed second by obtainin
