Vicente Pérez Rosales

Vicente Pérez Rosales was born in Santiago on 5 April 1807. After studies in Paris and the decline of the family fortune, he worked in the mines of Copiapó, smuggled goods across the cordillera and left for California in 1848. Appointed in 1850 colonisation agent for Valdivia and Llanquihue, where he settled German colonists, he became consul general in Hamburg in 1858, then intendant of Concepción. Senator for Llanquihue from 1876 to 1882, he died in Santiago on 6 September 1886.

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