Salvador Monroy

Monroy Pinto was born in Temuco, son of Hipólito Monroy and Delfina Pinto. He married Alicia Santos Castro in 1938, and they had one child.

A lifelong member of the Socialist Party, he began his political career at the local level, serving as municipal councilor (regidor) for the commune of Freire between 1953 and 1961.^[1]

In the 1961 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for the Departmental Grouping of Imperial, Temuco, Pitrufquén, and Villarrica for the legislative period 1961–1965. During his term, he was a member of the Permanent Commission on Government and Interior Affairs, focusing on regional administration and local development.^[2]

He lived his later years in his hometown of Temuco, where he died on 13 September 1980, at the age of 75.^[3]

• Diccionario Histórico y Biográfico de Chile, Fernando Castillo Infante (ed.), Editorial Zig-Zag, Santiago, 1996.
• Historia Política de Chile y su Evolución Electoral 1810–1992, Germán Urzúa Valenzuela, Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago, 1992.
• Memoria Parlamentaria 1961–1965, Cámara de Diputados de Chile, Santiago, 1966.