Juana Rosa Aguirre Luco (November 20, 1877 – December 8, 1962) was First Lady of

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(between December 25, 1938- November 25, 1941) and the wife of

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Pedro Aguirre Cerda Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda (; February 6, 1879 – November 25, 1941) was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 22nd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941. A member of the Radical Party since 1906, ...

, 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

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in 1938 when her husband assumed the presidency. She was greatly committed to education, was popular with the public, and was a supporter of women's participation in politics in Chile. 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.

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1877 births 1963 deaths First ladies of Chile Chilean people of Basque descent {{Chile-bio-stub