Emilio Bello Codesido
Chilean lawyer, diplomat, deputy and President of the Government Junta that ruled Chile in 1925
Emilio Bello Codesido (31 July 1868 – 3 March 1963) was a Chilean liberal lawyer, diplomat, and politician who briefly exercised executive authority in Chile in 1925. He became president of the Government Junta following the overthrow of Luis Altamirano Talavera, president of the previous governing junta, on 23 January. His brief tenure ended with the return to power of Arturo Alessandri, who came back to Chile after his exile in Italy and France.
In 1937, while serving as Minister of National Defense, Bello was proposed as a presidential candidate by Alessandri, who was then serving his second term as president (1932–1938), ahead of the presidential election scheduled for the following year. However, Gustavo Ross, a liberal politician and Minister of Finance who was in Europe at the time, pre-empted the move, frustrating Alessandri's plans.
Alessandri subsequently expressed his frustration at the prospect of a victory by Popular Front (FP) candidate Pedro Aguirre Cerda. Aguirre Cerda ultimately won the election; Ross later withdrew his allegations of "electoral fraud" on 12 November.
From 1894 to 1906, Bello served four consecutive terms as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing Valparaíso and Casablanca. He subsequently held several ministerial portfolios during the administrations of Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Germán Riesco, and Arturo Alessandri. Under Alessandri, he briefly served as acting Minister of the Interior and twice held the portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Worship and Colonization during the period covered in the article.
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