Background
Juan Luis Sanfuentes was born on 27 December 1858 in Santiago.
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Juan Luis Sanfuentes was born on 27 December 1858 in Santiago.
He was a graduate of the Law School of the University of Chile in 1879.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the firt time in 1888. As a supporter of the martyred ex-president, he returned temporarily to private life. However, he took a prominent part in organizing the Liberal Democratic Party and became its president in 1900.
Sanfuentes was elected senator in 1900 and continued in that body until his election to the presidency. He was president of the Senate in 1906, and minister of finance and minister of justice and public instruction.
Sanfuentes was elected president in 1915 with support of the Coalition, the alliance of the National, Liberal Democratic, and Conservative parties.