Enrique Bahamonde

Enrique Bahamonde
Minister of Land and Colonization
In office
15 September 1960 – 26 August 1961
PresidentJorge Alessandri
Preceded byJulio Philippi
Succeeded byJulio Philippi
Undersecretary of Education
In office
3 November 1958 – 1960
PresidentJuan Antonio Ríos
Preceded byEmilio Pfeffer
Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile
In office
16 September 1952 – 11 May 1959
PresidentGabriel González Videla
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Jorge Alessandri
Preceded byHumberto Mewes
Succeeded byEnrique Silva Cimma
Personal details
Born(1892-05-30)30 May 1892
Died25 December 1980(1980-12-25) (aged 88)
PartyConservative Party
Traditionalist Conservative Party
United Conservative Party
SpouseRebeca García
Alma materUniversity of Chile
ProfessionLawyer

Luis Enrique Bahamonde Ruiz (30 May 1892 – 25 December 1980) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He served as a Minister of State — in the portfolio of Lands and Colonization — during the administration of President Jorge Alessandri between 1960 and 1961.

Family and education

Bahamonde was the eldest of five children born to Ruperto Antonio Bahamonde Rivera and Sara Elvira Ruiz Manselli.[1]

He studied at the Liceo of Concepción and later at the Internado Nacional Barros Arana in Santiago.[1] He subsequently pursued law at the University of Chile, qualifying as a lawyer in 1916.[1]

Public life

Bahamonde had a long career in the Ministry of Public Education, where he eventually served as Undersecretary.[1]

In 1939, he joined the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic as a fiscal auditor. He held the highest office of that institution between 1952 and 1959, becoming the first Comptroller General to be appointed by a President of Chile with the approval of the Senate of Chile.[1][2][3][4]

In 1960, and for a period of one year, he served as Minister of Lands and Colonization by appointment of President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez. He both succeeded and was succeeded in that post by lawyer Julio Philippi Izquierdo.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Biografías de chilenos: miembros de los poderes Ejecutivo, Legislativo y Judicial (1876–1973), Armando de Ramón et al., Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2003, Vol. I, p. 124.
  2. ^ "El Mercurio (Santiago), 23 March 2002, p. C3". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "El Mercurio (Santiago), 29 June 2002, p. B3". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "El Mercurio (Santiago), 18 July 2002, p. C3". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)