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Alejandro Gallo

Chilean politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ139962502
Source-derived summary

Alejandro Gallo Sapiaín was a Chilean politician who served as a deputy in the National Congress during the early 1930s.

Political career

Gallo was elected deputy for the First Departamental Grouping of Pisagua and Tarapacá for the 1930–1934 legislative period. He served as substitute member of the Permanent Commission on Public Education.

He joined the Chamber on 21 January 1931 as the fifth deputy for that constituency, elected by the Department of Arica.

After the 4 June 1932 coup d'etat, it was decreed the dissolution of Congress two days later.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alejandro Gallo” is chilean politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alejandro, Gallo and Chilean, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1934, 1931, 1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alejandro, Gallo and Chilean is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139962502. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1934, 1931 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from Alejandro Gallo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.