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Jorge Alessandri
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- Succeeded by
- Eduardo Frei Montalva
- President
- Gabriel González Videla
- Constituency
- Santiago
- Born
- Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez , ( 1896-05-19 ) May 19, 1896, Santiago , Chile
- Died
- August 31, 1986 (1986-08-31) (aged 90), Santiago, Chile
- Resting place
- Santiago General Cemetery , Santiago, Chile
- Party
- Independent
- Parent s
- Arturo Alessandri and Rosa Rodríguez
- Alma mater
- University of Chile
- Profession
- Civil engineer , entrepreneur , politician
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jorge
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- Santiago
- Place of death
- Santiago
- Father
- Arturo Alessandri
- Occupation
- engineer
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Jorge Alessandri.jpg
- Work location
- Santiago
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- Commons category
- Jorge Alessandri
- date of birth
- 1896-05-19
- date of death
- 1986-08-31
- second family name in Spanish name
- Rodríguez
- place of burial
- Santiago General Cemetery
- candidacy in election
- 1958 Chilean presidential election
- birth name
- Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
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Encyclopedic overview
Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez ( Latin American Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe aleˈsandɾi roˈðɾiɣes]; 19 May 1896 – 31 August 1986) was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende. He was the son of Arturo Alessandri, who was president from 1920 to 1925 and again from 1932 to 1938.
Early years
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