Lisandro Cruz Ponce (11 December 1911 – 4 August 1997) was a Chilean lawyer and politician.[1]
Lisandro Cruz Ponce | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 3 November 1970 – 28 January 1972 | |
| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Gustavo Lagos Matus |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Sanhueza |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 5 July 1950 – 15 May 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Souper Maturana |
| Constituency | 2nd Departamental Grouping |
| Minister of Labor | |
| In office 3 February 1946 – 6 September 1946 | |
| President | Juan Antonio Ríos |
| Preceded by | Mariano Bustos Lagos |
| Succeeded by | Luis Mandujano Tobar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 December 1911 |
| Died | 4 August 1997 (aged 85) |
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| Spouse | Cristina Ulloa Chacón |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Carlos Cruz Rosa Ponce |
| University of Chile (LL.B) | |
| Profession | Lawyer |
He served as Minister of Labor during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos in 1946,[1] and later as Minister of Justice under President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1972.[1] He also held a seat as a Deputy of the Republic from 1950 to 1953.[1]
Biography
editBorn in La Calera to Carlos Cruz and Rosa Ponce, he studied at the Liceo of San Felipe and later at the University of Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1936 with the thesis A Study on Modern Civil Law.[1] He worked as an assistant to Professor Arturo Alessandri Rodríguez in civil law and as a local police judge in Puente Alto.[1] He married Cristina Ulloa Chacón, with whom he had four children.[1]
Political career
editCruz Ponce joined the Socialist Party in 1934.[1] In 1950, he was elected as a Deputy in a by-election for the 2nd Departmental Constituency (Antofagasta, Tocopilla, El Loa and Taltal), completing the 1949–1953 legislative term.[1] He served on the Foreign Relations, Labor and Social Legislation, and Economy and Commerce commissions.[1]
He was appointed Minister of Labor in February 1946, serving until September of the same year in the government of Juan Antonio Ríos.[1] In 1968, he joined the Independent Popular Action (API).[1] Later, he was appointed Minister of Justice by Salvador Allende, holding the position from November 1970 until January 1972.[1] During his tenure, he signed a decree of pardon together with Allende for members of the MIR and other far-left militants, which triggered a constitutional accusation against him in February 1971.[2] He also served as acting Minister of Education for one week in February 1971,[1] and later as director of the Central Bank of Chile.[1]
After the 1973 coup d'état, he went into exile in Mexico, where he became a professor of law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and later a researcher at its Institute of Legal Research.[3] He died there on 4 August 1997.[4]
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Parliamentary biographies: Lisandro Cruz Ponce". Library of the National Congress of Chile. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ↑ "Anales de la República: Lisandro Cruz Ponce". Anales.cl. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ↑ "Profile: Lisandro Cruz Ponce (UNAM)" (PDF). Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑ "Obituary – Lisandro Cruz Ponce – 1997". Juristas UNAM. Retrieved 11 November 2018.