Oscar Jiménez Pinochet
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Óscar Jiménez Pinochet | |
|---|---|
 Óscar Jiménez Pinochet as Minister of Health, around 1970. | |
| Minister of Public Health of Chile | |
| In office 4 November 1970 – 14 August 1971 | |
| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Ramón Valdivieso |
| Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Concha |
| Ambassador of Chile to the Hungarian People's Republic | |
| In office 1971 – 11 September 1973 | |
| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Claudio Aliaga Freire |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo Concha Gazmuri |
| Minister of Lands and Colonization of Chile | |
| In office 23 April 1957 – 9 July 1957 | |
| President | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Preceded by | Santiago Wilson Hernández |
| Succeeded by | Enrique Méndez Carrasco |
| Undersecretariat of Public Health | |
| In office 3 November 1952 – 1955 | |
| President | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Preceded by | Abraham Drobny Kleinhauz |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Leyton Garvagno |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 April 1915 |
| Died | 15 March 1994 (aged 78) |
| Party | National Socialist Movement (1933–1939) Agrarian Labor Party (194?–1958) National Democratic Party (1960–1969) Social Democratic Party (1969–1970) Radical Party (1970–1973) |
| Spouse |
Eliana de la Jara Parada
(m. 1939) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) | Luis Jiménez Barrientos Blanca Pinochet Meza |
| Alma mater | University of Chile Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| Occupation | Diplomat Politician |
| Profession | Physician |
Óscar Jiménez Pinochet (12 April 1915 – 15 March 1994) was a Chilean physician and politician. He served as ministro de Estado during the governments of presidents Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1957) and Salvador Allende (1970–1971).[1]
He was born in Santiago de Chile on 12 April 1915, the son of Army Colonel Luis Jiménez Barrientos and Blanca Pinochet Meza.[2][3] He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera in Santiago. He pursued higher education in medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chile, graduating as a physician in 1940.[3]
In 1939, he married Eliana de la Jara Parada (sister of parliamentarian Renato de la Jara Parada),[2] with whom he had six children, among them physician Jorge Jiménez de la Jara, who became Minister of Health under president Patricio Aylwin, and Mónica Jiménez, who served as Minister of Education during the first administration of president Michelle Bachelet.[2]