Juana Rosa Aguirre Explained

Juana Rosa Aguirre
Office:First Lady of Chile
Term Label:In role
Term Start:December 25, 1938
Term End:November 25, 1941
President:Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Predecessor:Rosa Ester Rodríguez Velasco
Successor:Marta Ide Pereira
Birth Name:Juana Rosa Aguirre Luco
Birth Date:20 November 1877
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile
Nationality:Chilean
Parents:José Joaquín Aguirre
Mercedes Luco Gutiérrez

Juana Rosa Aguirre Luco (November 20, 1877 – December 8, 1962) was First Lady of Chile (between December 25, 1938- November 25, 1941) and the wife of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who was also her cousin.

Biography

She was the daughter of the popular doctor José Joaquín Aguirre Campos and his second wife Mercedes Luco Gutiérrez. She and Pedro Aguirre Cerda were married in 1916, but they never had children. She became the First Lady of Chile in 1938 when her husband assumed the presidency.[1]

She was greatly committed to education, was popular with the public, and was a supporter of women's participation in politics in Chile.[2]

After the death of her husband from tuberculosis in 1941, she established in his memory the Pedro Aguirre Cerda Children's Home Foundation to care for abandoned children.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional Historia Política. Nacional. Biblioteca del Congreso. bcn.cl. 2018-05-20.
  2. Web site: El Mercurio Juana Rosa Aguirre Luco. LUN. 2018-05-20. 2018-05-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021020/http://impresa.elmercurio.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=31-03-2013%200:00:00&NewsID=123910&dtB=23-10-2017%200:00:00&BodyID=10&PaginaId=12. dead.
  3. Web site: Primeras Damas de Chile (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios Historicos Forenses. 20 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201830/http://www.centrohistoricoforense.cl/docs/primeras_damas.pdf. 23 September 2015. dead.