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Juan Antonio Rios

Juan Antonio Rios Morales was president of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during World War II. A member of the conservative wing of the Radical Party and candidate of the Democratic Alliance left-wings' coalition, he defeated General Carlos Ibanez in the 1942 election, following the death of president Pedro Aguirre.

Rios was born in Canete, a coal-mining village in the Arauco Province of southern Chile, and became a lawyer in 1914. Until he became President of Chile, he was president of Chile's largest bank, the Caja de Credito Hipotecario, which made mortgage loans to Chilean farmers. At the same time ...

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