José Cruz Delgado

José Cruz Delgado Espinoza was a Chilean coal miner, trade union leader, and communist politician.
He was born in Coronel to José Cruz Delgado and Luisa Espinoza. He married twice: first to Irma Marina Lozano Molina in 1942, and later to María Luisa del Carmen Sepúlveda Olguín in 1956, with whom he had two children, Ángela Luz and Alejandro Luis.

Biography

Cruz Delgado worked in the coal industry in the Lota mining basin, where he became an important union leader.
A long-time member of the clandestine Communist Party of Chile, he served as a councillor for the municipality of Curanilahue from 1938 to 1941
During the years when the Communist Party was banned from running under its own name, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile as a member of the National Progressive Party.
He represented the 18th Departmental Group from 1941 to 1945. He served on the Permanent Commission on Economy and Trade, and on the Commission on Industry.
He died in Santiago on 18 June 1960.