page_title: Jorge Alessandri
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Jorge Alessandri / Early years
caption_attribution_description: Español: Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, Presidente de Chile English: Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, President of Chile
context_page_description: Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende. He was the son of Arturo Alessandri, who was president from 1920 to 1925 and again from 1932 to 1938.
context_section_description: Jorge Alessandri was born in Santiago. He studied at Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, prestigious public high school of Santiago, and University of Chile, and after graduating in 1919 worked there as a lecturer. After the fall of the parliamentary republic, he lived in European exile with his parents from 1924–1925, but returned to his native land where he was elected to parliament as an independent from a Santiago constituency in 1926.
  He withdrew from public life in 1932 to concentrate on business interests, becoming president of the mortgage bank, Caja de Crédito Hipotecario until 1938 and running the Paper and Carton Manufacturing Company.  From 1944 to 1947, he was chairman of the Chilean employers' confederation.
caption: Jorge Alessandri official portrait
exif: {}