Background
Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was born at Linares, Chile, in 1868.
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Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was born at Linares, Chile, in 1868.
He was educated in the local schools, studied law at the University of Chile, and was graduated in 1893.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1897, serving there until 1915. In 1908, he was appointed minister of industry and public works, and in 1913 he became minister of finance. He was elected to the Senate in 1915 and was prime minister and minister of the interior in 1918. In 1920, Alessandri was elected president of Chile by a Liberal coalition representing the middle class and labor interests. The conservative land interests and the military, by a coup d'etat in September 1924, forced him to retire from office, but he was recalled in the following January, retiring at the end of his term in September 1925. He was exiled soon afterward, but returned to Chile after the revolution of July 1931, and in the October election he was again elected president and served from December 1932 to December 1937. At the end of his second term, he announced his retirement from politics, but he was soon back and was again elected senator in 1946. Alessandri died in Santiago, Chile, on Aug. 24, 1950.
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