Alfredo Lagarrigue
Alfredo Lagarrigue Rengifo (15 June 1891 – 1974) was a Chilean civil engineer, academic and politician who served as Minister of Finance during the so-called Socialist Republic of Chile, under the administration of Carlos Dávila.
Early life
Lagarrigue was born in Santiago, Chile, on 15 June 1891, the son of geographical engineer and farmer Luis Lagarrigue Alessandri and Javiera Rengifo Rengifo.
He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto de Humanidades Luis Campino. He subsequently studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), graduating as a civil engineer in 1920.
Lagarrigue married María Adriana Montt Santos, with whom he had two children, Jorge and María Adriana. His grandchildren were persecuted during the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990) because of their involvement in the socialist movement.
Professional career
Lagarrigue worked on major public water-supply projects at Laguna Negra and at the Maitenes hydroelectric power plant. He later served as an actuary at the Caja de Crédito Hipotecario and as a board member of the Corporación de Transporte. He subsequently served as a board member of the Corporación de Ventas de Salitre y Yodo de Chile and the Central Bank of Chile, as well as a board member and technical manager of the Empresa Nacional de Transportes.
He also taught rational mechanics and infinitesimal calculus at the University of Chile, and was a professor at the School of Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Lagarrigue was a member of the Scientific Association of Brussels.
Political career
In 1931, Lagarrigue was among the founding members of the New Public Action (NAP), a precursor to the Socialist Party of Chile (PS), which he also joined following its establishment in 1933.
On 5 June 1932, he was appointed Minister of Finance by Arturo Puga, president of the Government Junta, and remained in office until the end of Puga's provisional administration on 16 June of that year. During his tenure, he drafted the Programa de acción económica inmediata de la República Socialista ("Immediate Economic Action Programme of the Socialist Republic"), also known as the "Thirty-Point Plan".
Lagarrigue died in Santiago in 1974.