Florencio Durán Bernales (1893-1978) was a

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, lawyer, and politician. As member of the

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he served as President of the Senate of Chile from 1941 to 1944. He ran also as pre-candidate for the Radical Party in 1942 but lost to Juan Antonio Ríos, who then won the elections.

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