Rafael Sotomayor Gaete

Rafael Sotomayor Gaete

Infobox Person
name=Rafael Sotomayor


caption=
birth_date=birth date|1848|11|16|mf=y
dead=dead
birth_place=Cauquenes, Chile
death_date=death date and age|1918|2|16|1848|11|16|mf=y
death_place=Santiago, Chile

Rafael Segundo Sotomayor Gaete (November 16, 1848 - February 16, 1918) was a Chilean politician and several times minister.

He was born in Cauquenes, the son of Rafael Sotomayor Baeza and of Pabla del Carmen Gaete Ruiz. He studied at the Instituto Nacional and later graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile on January 7, 1871. During the War of the Pacific, he accompanied his father, who was the Minister of War, as personal secretary and auditor, and after his death, in 1880, he became CO of the Customs House Guard in Iquique and later Intendant of Tarapacá. On May 4, 1895, he married Inés Neuhaus Ugarteche, and together they had 6 children.

He joined the Radical Party, and in 1898 President Federico Errázuriz Echaurren appointed him Minister of Finance (1898-1899) first and Minister of the Interior later (1899). President German Riesco appointed him Minister of the Interior (1903) and then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cult and Colonization (1903-1904). In 1906 Sotomayor was elected Senator for "Aconcagua" (1906-1912).

President Pedro Montt appointed him Minister of Finance (1906-1907) and then Minister of the Interior (1907-1908). As such he is held responsible of giving the shoot-to-kill order to General Roberto Silva Renard that caused the Santa María School massacre in 1907, where the estimates range between 1,100 and 3,500 men, women and children killed. His reputation never recovered after that.

Sotomayor died of Spanish flu on board the ship "Infanta Isabel", in front of Pernambuco, at the age of 69, on the return trip from Europe, after having been Chilean Ambassador to France.

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* [http://www.genealog.cl/Apellidos/Cepeda/#SotomayorGaete,Rafael Genealogical chart of Sotomayor family] es


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