Gabriel Gonz%C3%A1lez Videla


Gabriel Gonzlez Videla was a Chilean politician. He was a deputy and senator in the Chilean Congress and was President of Chile from 1946 to 1952. He also helped draft the current Chilean constitution.

Gonzlez was born on the coastal city of La Serena on November 22, 1898 he was of Spanish descent, the oldest son of Gabriel Gonzlez Castillo and Teresa Videla Zepeda. He was the oldest in a family of eighteen children. After graduating from the Liceo de La Serena, Gonzlez went to study law at the University of Chile. He graduated from the university on 1922, but that same year his father became paralytic. Because of this tragedy, Gonzlez had to return to La Serena to help his family. He became a freemason in 1924.

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