José Santos Salas

Chilean physician and politician

José Santos Salas Morales (8 July 1888 – 16 October 1955) was a Chilean physician and politician. He was candidate for the presidential election of 1925, where he was defeated by Emiliano Figueroa.

Santos Salas was one of the leaders of the Social-Republican Union of the Wage Earners of Chile (USRACh), a party that brought together workers and their unions during the 1920s. The leftist movement emerged in parallel to the Communist Party.

He was appointed by the Government Junta of 1925 as Minister of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare. He was Minister of Justice and Hygiene during the administration of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in 1927. Salas was also Minister of Health of Gabriel González Videla in 1947.

Gonzalez Videla appointed him as mayor of Santiago in 1946, in a position he held until 1950.^[1]

Sources

^ Pérgola de las Flores San Francisco obtiene permiso de ocupación por parte de Bienes Nacionales Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of National Property of Chile (in Spanish)

Ramón Folch, Armando de. Biografías de Chilenos. Santiago: Ediciones UC.

Political offices
Preceded by Alejandro del Río	Minister of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare 1925	Succeeded by Pedro Lautaro Ferrer
Preceded by Isaac Hevia	Minister of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare 1927	Succeeded by Enrique Balmaceda
Preceded by Aquiles Vergara Vicuña	Minister of Justice and Public Instruction 1927	Succeeded by Enrique Balmaceda
Preceded by Manuel Sanhueza	Minister of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare 1947-1948	Succeeded by Guillermo Varas
Preceded by Galvarino Gallardo	Mayor of Santiago 1947-1950	Succeeded by Mario Valdés