Ramón Barros Luco
Ramón Barros Luco ( born June 9, 1835 in Santiago de Chile, † September 20, 1919 ) was a Chilean politician. From 1910 to 1915 he served as president of his country.
After school Barros studied at the Universidad de Chile, where he graduated in 1858 made into law. He married Mercedes Valdés Cuevas, the marriage remained childless.
He joined the Liberal Party and in 1861 elected to the House of Representatives. From 1872 to 1876 he was Minister of Finance under President Federico Errazuriz Zañartu, from 1884 to 1885 under President Domingo Santa María González, who also made him the Home Secretary.
1889 elected him the House of Representatives as its president in 1892, he was again Minister of the Interior - this time for President Jorge Montt Álvarez -, and in 1896 elected him the Región de Tarapacá in the Senate, the Bureau Barros took the same. 1897 sent him the government as a diplomatic representative to Paris. In 1901, he managed again the Interior Ministry and also took over the following year the chair of the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, representing the interests of farmers.
As President Pedro Montt Montt had died in 1910, the parties sought doggedly arguing for a successor. Ramón Barros Luco, at this time in his 77th year, was considered a compromise solution that could carry all parties, including the Conservatives.
The Congress called him on September 14, 1910, and on 23 September Barros was chosen in the middle during the Jubilee celebrations of the centennial anniversary of the declaration of independence of Chile.
Barros ' government was characterized by deference to Parliament: he wanted to offer the congressional opposition no opportunity for profiling. So he accepted such as the resignation of a minister only when both chambers of Congress had agreed. The parliamentary certain government moved between the two major political camps of his time, the Alianza Liberal ( from radicals, liberals and Democrats ) and the Coalition ( Conservative, Liberal Democrats and National ).
1915 Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui was elected his successor. Barros Luco devoted himself in his later years to charitable causes such as the construction of a hospital, which was to bear his name. The flu epidemic of 1919 also affected Ramón Barros Luco, who died at the age of 84 years.
Trivia
Although Ramón Barros Luco was no president spectacular effects, still knows every child in Chile his name: Almost every day he ordered namely in his favorite café, the Confitería Torres in Santiago, a sandwich, topped with beef steak and cheese. This sandwich combination quickly became a typical specialty, and still bears his name. Virtually every cafe in Chile has a sandwich Barros Luco on the menu.
See also: History of Chile.
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- President ( Chile)
- Chilean
- Born in 1835
- Died in 1919
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