Pedro Montt

Pedro Montt

Infobox_President | name=Pedro Montt


order=15th President of Chile
term_start=September 18, 1906
term_end=August 16, 1910
predecessor=Germán Riesco
successor=Elías Fernández
birth_date=birth date|1846|6|29|mf=y
birth_place=Santiago, Chile
death_date=death date and age|1910|8|16|1846|6|29|mf=y
death_place=Bremen, Germany
spouse=Sara del Campo Yávar
vicepresident=Ismael Tocornal
vicepresident2=Elías Fernández
party=National

Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt (June 29, 1846 - August 16, 1910) was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910, whose conservative government furthered railroad and manufacturing activities but ignored pressing social and labour problems. He was the son of former Chilean president Manuel Montt.

Biography

The son of the former Chilean president Manuel Montt, Pedro Montt graduated in law from the National Institute in 1870. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1876 and became its president in 1885. Montt held two posts in the cabinet of President José Manuel Balmaceda, but he later (1891) took an active part in the revolution that overthrew Balmaceda. He then went to the United States, first as an agent of the revolutionary junta and later (after U.S. recognition) as minister from Chile.

Unsuccessful in his first bid for the presidency (1901), Montt was elected by a large majority in 1906 as the candidate of the National Union ticket. His first action was to call out the army to suppress large-scale strikes (1907). His administration supported the construction of a railway that ran the length of the country and stimulated the production of nitrates and copper. It did little, however, to improve the living conditions of the people. In 1910 Montt left Chile for medical treatment in Germany, where he died.

Additional information

ee also

*Montt family

External links

* [http://icarito.aconcagua1.copesa.cl/biografias/1891-1925/bios/montt-pedro.htm Short biography] es icon
* [http://www.genealog.cl/Apellidos/Carrera/#MonttMontt,Pedro Genealogical chart of Montt family] es icon


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