José Gutiérrez Alliende

He was born on 26 August 1889 in Valparaíso, Chile to José Ramón Gutiérrez Martínez and Carolina Alliende Martínez.^[1] He married Rebeca Olivos Prado and they had five children.^[1] He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones and later read law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, being admitted as a lawyer on 4 September 1912 with the thesis El recurso de casación.^[1]

He served as rapporteur of the Court of Appeals of Santiago from 6 October 1920 and as secretary of the Tribunal de Honor in 1925.^[1] He was commissioned by the government to study in France and Italy systems of judicial financing, and held positions in financial and industrial institutions, including the Compañía Salitrera El Peñón and the Compañía de Seguros La Previsión.^[1] He also served as secretary of Senate commissions and as counselor of the Colegio de Abogados.^[1]

A member of the Conservative Party, he was elected deputy for the 11th Departamental Circumscription (Curicó, Santa Cruz and Vichuquén) for the 1926–1930 period and served on the Permanent Commissions of Legislation and Justice and of Finance.^[1]

He later held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commerce under President Arturo Alessandri Palma in several terms between 1937 and 1938.^[1] In that capacity he represented Chile at the Seventh Pan American Conference in Montevideo in 1938, attended the Ninth Pan American Conference in Bogotá in 1948, and headed the Chilean delegation to the Fourteenth United Nations General Assembly in 1959.^[1]