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Luis Bossay
Chilean politician (1912–1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luis Bossay Leiva (3 December 1912 – 7 August 1986) was a Chilean lawyer, businessman and politician, member of the Radical Party (PR).
He served as Deputy, Senator and Minister of State under President Gabriel González Videla. In the 1958 Chilean presidential election, he ran for the presidency of the Republic, placing fourth.[1]
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Biography
Bossay was born in Valparaíso on 3 December 1912, the son of Pedro Bossay and María C. Leiva.[1] He studied at the Liceo de Hombres de Valparaíso (today Liceo Eduardo de la Barra), and then pursued law studies at the Fiscal Course in Valparaíso and later at the University of Chile Law School, Valparaíso campus, where he earned his law degree.[1]
He engaged in business activities, promoting the company “Bossay Hnos” in 1935, later transformed into “Sociedad Comercial Bossay Importadores y Cía.” dedicated to electrical imports, with offices in Valparaíso and Santiago.[1] He also served as director of Metalúrgicos Renca Ltda.[1]
He married Marta Elena Hoedi Fontbona, with whom he had three children: Luis Rodolfo, Marta and Pedro Félix.[1]
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During his university years he joined the Radical Party in Valparaíso, where he rose through nearly all positions. He organized the Radical Youth (JR), serving as its president from 1932. In 1938 he directed the presidential campaign of Pedro Aguirre Cerda.[1] In 1941 he was elected Deputy for the 6th Departamental Group (Valparaíso and Quillota), serving until 1949 across consecutive terms, integrating the Commissions of Economy and Commerce, Public Works, Labor and Social Legislation, and others.[1]
On 3 November 1946 he was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Security by President Gabriel González Videla. In January 1947 he moved to the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, and later served briefly as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]
In 1953 he was elected Senator for the 3rd Departamental Group (Aconcagua and Valparaíso), a seat he would hold across three terms until 1973. He was a member of the Joint Budget Committee and presided over the Chilean delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1963. He also attended the Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Ottawa (1965).[1]
In the 1958 presidential elections, he was supported by the Radical Party and the Democratic Party, but placed fourth with 192,077 votes (15.55%).[1] In 1971 he resigned from the Radical Party and joined the Independent Radical Movement of the Left (later Radical Left Party, and eventually Chilean Social Democracy Party).[1]
After the 1973 coup, his senatorial term was cut short with the dissolution of Congress on 21 September 1973.[1]
He was active in cultural and civic life, organizing the Cultural Club of Valparaíso and being a member of the Grand Lodge of Chile. On 14 March 1983 he signed the “Democratic Manifesto,” which would later give rise to the Democratic Alliance.[2]
Bossay died in Santiago on 7 August 1986, of pancreatic cancer.[3] During the government of President Patricio Aylwin, Law No. 19.051 (1 April 1991) authorized the erection of a monument in his honor in Valparaíso.[1]
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