Armando Uribe Herrera

Armando Uribe Herrera (Santiago, 29 March 1904 – Santiago, 10 April 1970) was a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician who served as a minister of state during the second government of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo between 1954 and 1955.

Family and education

He was born in Santiago de Chile on 29 March 1904, the second of three children born to Pedro Uribe Uribe and Herminia Herrera Barriga. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer around 1928.

He married Emelina Arce Coo, daughter of Ramón Nonato Coo Serrano and Luisa Tagle Jordán; the latter was the daughter of Carmen Jordán Echenique and politician José Agustín Tagle Echeverría, who served as a deputy for Linares between 1843 and 1846, for Petorca between 1858 and 1861, and for Cauquenes and Constitución between 1861 and 1864. The couple had two children, Leoncio Armando and María de la Luz.

Public career

Politically unaffiliated, during the second government of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, he was appointed Minister of Mining on 5 June 1954 and served in the post until 6 January 1955. Concurrently, from 4 to 6 January 1955, he served as acting Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare, replacing the incumbent minister, Sergio Altamirano.

Among his other activities, he served as director of the magazine Carreteras and was a law professor at the University of Chile. He died in Santiago on 10 April 1970, aged 66.