Carlos Morales San Martín

Carlos Morales San Martín (14 March 1897 – 1 April 1972) was a Chilean physician and parliamentarian who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1937 and 1945.

Biography Morales San Martín was born in El Carmen on 14 March 1897. He completed his early education at the rural school of El Carmen and the Liceo de Hombres of Chillán.

He later studied medicine at the University of Chile, qualifying as a physician and surgeon in 1923. His thesis was entitled Formol-jaleificación de los sueros sifilíticos. Reacción de Gate y Papacostas.

He worked as a physician at the Hospital San Juan de Dios of Chillán and as Head of the Laboratory at the San Borja Arriarán Clinical Hospital in Santiago. In 1924 he settled in Arica, where he served as bacteriologist and physician of the Sanitary Station, and as doctor for the Workers’ Insurance, the Charity Hospital, the Red Cross and the Carabineros of Arica.

He later served as medical inspector of the Charity Zone in Santiago, Secretary General of the Central Board of Charity in 1939, and Director of the Herminda Martín Clinical Hospital in Chillán.

He married Laura Rodríguez Tagle, with whom he shared his family life until his death in Chillán on 1 April 1972.

Political career Morales San Martín was a member of the Radical Party and served as president of the party in 1941.

He was elected Deputy for the Tarapacá Departmental Group —Arica, Iquique and Pisagua— for the 1937–1941 legislative term, serving on the Standing Committee on Medical–Social Assistance and Hygiene.

He was re-elected for the 1941–1945 term, during which he served on the Standing Committees on Economy and Commerce, and on Education.

In 1939, he was appointed Government Delegate to Cauquenes to coordinate assistance for victims of the earthquake that struck the city on 24 January of that year.