Tomás Pablo Elorza | |
Birth Date: | 1921 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Concepción, Chile |
Death Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Office1: | Member of the Senate of Chile |
Constituency1: | 7th Provincial Agrupation |
Term Start1: | 15 May 1969 |
Term End1: | 11 September 1973 |
Successor1: | Dissolution of the charge (1973 Coup d'état) |
Office2: | President of the Senate |
Term Start2: | 4 June 1969 |
Term End2: | 6 January 1971 |
Predecessor2: | Salvador Allende |
Successor2: | Patricio Aylwin |
Office3: | President of the Latin American Parliament |
Term Start3: | 6 December 1972 |
Term End3: | 21 September 1973 |
Predecessor3: | Jorge Dáger |
Successor3: | Arturo Hernández Grisanti |
Office4: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile |
Constituency4: | 17th Departamental Agrupation |
Term Start4: | 11 March 1957 |
Term End4: | 11 March 1961 |
Party: | Christian Democratic Party |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Spouse: | Ester Roa Rebolledo[1] |
Tomás Pablo Elorza (30 October 1921–1 December 1999) was a Chilean politician and architect who served as President of the Senate of Chile.[2]
He invested to Salvador Allende with the presidential band when he was elected.[3]
Pablo Elorza was married to Ester Roa Rebolledo,[1] mayor of Concepción (1956−1963) whose name the Estadio Municipal de Concepción was baptized.
A well regarded article that he wrote was «Aylwin, the word of a democrat».[4]