[[Category:Social Christian Conservative Party politicians]]
[[Category:Social Christian Conservative Party politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Chilean politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Chilean politicians]]
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[[Category:People from Santa Cruz, Chile]]
Chilean physician and politician (1910–2011)
Claudio Fernando Cancino Téllez (23 June 1910 – 26 April 2011) was a Chilean surgeon and politician. He served as a deputy for San Fernando and Santa Cruz between 1961 and 1969.
Cancino was born in Santiago on 23 June 1910, the son of Claudio Cancino and Julia Téllez. He completed his primary and secondary studies at the Colegio San Ignacio. He then attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the University of Concepción, and finally the University of Chile, graduating as a surgeon in 1937. Since 1930 he had worked as Chief Internist at the General Directorate of Prisons.
On 30 March 1940 he married the politician from Santa Cruz, Graciela Greve Silva (1913–2010). The couple had no children.[1]
Professional career
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Cancino began practicing medicine in 1939, when he was appointed Chief Physician of the Directorate of Pavement until 1950.
In 1950 he pursued postgraduate studies in Public Health and Hospital Administration. From that year he served as director of the Estación Central Sanitary Unit (1950–1952). He also worked as medical consultant for the Savings Bank of Public Employees and, between 1959 and 1960, was a member of the Council of the Hospital José Joaquín Aguirre.
Alongside his medical career, he engaged in agriculture, running his property Fundo Graciela de la Capellanía in Santa Cruz. He was also a member of the Chilean Medical Society.
Cancino joined the Social Christian Conservative Party in 1946, remaining until 1957, when he joined the Christian Democratic Party (PDC).
In the 1961 parliamentary elections, he was elected deputy for the 10th Departmental Group (San Fernando and Santa Cruz), serving until 1965. He sat on the Permanent Commission on Medical-Social Assistance and Hygiene (1961–1965) and on Finance (1962–1964). He was also part of investigative commissions on the National Health Service (1961–1962), copper (1962), the National Fund for Public Employees and Journalists (1962), and a constitutional accusation (1962–1963).
He was re-elected in 1965 for a second term (1965–1969). He presided over the Health Commission, and also served on Finance (1966–1967), Agriculture, Public Works (1967), the Joint Budget Commission (1962–1963, 1965–1966, 1967), Labor and Social Legislation (1967), Public Education, and National Defense (1968–1969).
Among his sponsored bills were Law No. 15,565 (9 March 1964), which reformed the Municipal Workers’ Pension Fund, and Law No. 16,720 (12 December 1967), which created the National Blood Bank.
Later life and death
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He continued his public involvement as Councillor of the Central Charity Board, representing the President of the Republic.
Cancino died at his family’s estate in Santa Cruz on 26 April 2011, aged 100.
