Arturo Troncoso

Hernán Arturo Troncoso Daroch was a Chilean naval officer with the rank of admiral and a politician.
He served as Intendant of the Valparaíso Region, Minister of Housing and Urbanism, and Minister of Public Education during the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
He also chaired the National Electricity Company and served as a council member of the Federico Santa María Technical University and the Adolfo Ibáñez University.
After the end of the military regime, he presided over the “Union of Retired Officers” in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, and 2003.

Personal life

He was the son of Berta Daroch Fernández and Luis Guillermo Troncoso Palacios, who was a navy captain and Undersecretary of the Navy of Chile from 1933 to 1937, during the presidency of Arturo Alessandri.

Troncoso married Lidia Julia Valle Ramírez, daughter of Lidia Ramírez Rahausen and Roberto Valle Ferro, a navy officer who supported the 1952 presidential candidacy of the radical Pedro Enrique Alfonso. The couple had two children: María Angélica and Gonzalo Arturo.
He died on 30 October 2008 due to heart disease. His funeral was held the following day at the Naval Chapel of Las Salinas, Viña del Mar.