Ramón Allende Padín

Dr. Ramón Allende Padín, the red Allende (* 1845 in Chile, † 1884) was born as the son of Gregorio Allende Garcés and María Salomé Padín. He was a physician, politician of the Radical Party of Chile and Freemasons.

Ramón was well known for two reasons also the red Allende: on the one hand due to its radically liberal political views, on the other hand because of its striking red hair color.

Life

He studied medicine and in 1865 wrote a book about the connection between health, mortality and poverty by typhus pathogen.

Family

He married Eugenia Castro del Fierro and got with her 4 children: Tomás Allende Castro ( grandfather of the writer Isabel Allende Toce ), Salvador Allende Castro ( Salvador Allende's father), Ramón Allende Castro and Ana Allende Castro.

Policy

In 1871 he was elected as a deputy to parliament and represented there for eight years, the radical party. During this time he fought for civil rights, separation of church and state and the secularization of cemeteries and the civil status acts. The establishment of the first secular school ( after which he was excommunicated from the church ) and the first maternity hospital of Santiago goes back to his suggestion.

In 1879 he resigned from his post, however, to draw as a volunteer of the Chilean Army in the saltpeter, from which he returned in poor health and died of 1884.