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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Graciela Contreras Barrenechea (1895–1974), also known as Graciela Contreras de Schnake, was a Chilean politician. She was the mayor of Santiago from 1939 to 1940, becoming the first woman to hold the office.

Biography

Born in Santiago in 1895,[1] Graciela Contreras was the daughter of José María Contreras Vergara and Tránsito Barrenechea Naranjo. On the maternal side, she was the niece of doctor and politician Шаблон:Ill, and was also the cousin of the father of writer and politician Julio Barrenechea. In 1923 she married Óscar Schnake and they had two children.[2] The couple later divorced.[1] Contreras was a member of the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) since its founding in 1933, specializing in the area of Social Women's Action.[1]

Contreras was appointed mayor of the commune of Santiago by President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, her nomination being supported by the Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women (MEMCH),[1] a position she assumed on 6 January 1939.[3] With this, she became the first mayor of Santiago[4] – after her, only three women have held that position: María Teresa del Canto (1953–1957), María Eugenia Oyarzún (1975–1976), and Carolina Tohá (2012–2016).[3][5] She was the second woman to take office as mayor in Chile after Alicia Cañas,[6] and was the only woman mayor of a national capital in the Americas at the time.[7]

She served as mayor until 19 March 1940.[3] During her term she coordinated relief efforts after the Chillán earthquake,[7] expanded playgrounds and sports programs in working-class neighborhoods,[8] opened a hostel for shoeshiners,[9] and was a delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women, working to increase civil and political rights for women.[10]

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