Gabriel Letelier

Gabriel Letelier Elgart (1886 – ?) was a Chilean politician and agriculturist who served as a deputy and later as a senator of the Republic.

Biography He was born in 1886 in Santiago, Chile to Gabriel Letelier Silva and Esther Elgart Leal. He married Luz María Letelier Donoso and they had three children. He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones and later pursued agronomy at the University of Chile.

He engaged in agricultural activities on his estates Prosperidad, Pichinquileo and Las Lajuelas in Talca. He was director of the Compañía Internacional de Radio and a member of the Club de La Unión and the Club de Talca.

Political career A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected deputy for the 12th Departamental Circumscription (Talca, Lontué and Curepto) for the 1926–1930 term and entered Congress on 22 May 1928, replacing Aurelio Donoso Henríquez.

He was subsequently elected senator for the 6th Provincial Grouping (Talca, Linares and Maule) for the 1930–1938 period and served on the Permanent Commission of Agriculture, Mining, Industrial Development and Colonization, and as substitute senator on the Permanent Commission of Government.

The Congress was dissolved on 6 June 1932 following the coup d'état of 4 June of that year.