Jerónimo Méndez
Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia (* 1887, † 1959) was a Chilean politician. For half a year he led in winter 1941/1942 as President of Chile government.
Méndez was a member of the Radical Party and was interior minister in the last cabinet of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda. When he became ill with tuberculosis in the fall of 1941, he appointed, two weeks before his death, Méndez as Vice - President and gave him on 25 November 1941, the office proxy. Méndez managed the country on a transitional basis for half a year until he handed over the presidency to the new President-elect Juan Antonio Ríos Morales on April 2, 1942.
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- President ( Chile)
- Minister of the Interior (Chile)
- Chilean
- Born in 1887
- Died in 1959
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