Carlos Walker Martínez

Carlos Walker Martínez (born February 2, 1842 in Vallenar , † October 5, 1905 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean writer and politician.

Bibliography Book by Carlos Walker Martinez (1904)
Written by Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara

Walker attended the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in Copiapó and from 1856 to 1861 the Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago. From 1862 to 1866 he studied law at the Universidad de Chile . In 1862 he published his first poems in Manuel Matta's magazine La Voz de Chile . In 1865 he founded the magazine República Literaria , the following year his play Manuel Rodríguez was performed. His most important lyric work, Poesías, Ecos de la Opinión y Romances , appeared in the late 1870s. He also published several works on the political history of Chile ( El Dictador Linares , Don Diego Portales and a two-volume Historia de la Administración Santa María , 1889) as well as two volumes of diaries ( Páginas de Viaje and Cartas de Jerusalén ).

In 1866, Walker came to the Chilean embassy in Bolivia as an embassy secretary . There, as a companion to Foreign Minister Álvaro Covarrubias, he was involved in the conclusion of the border treaties with Chile. After traveling to Europe and the USA, he went to Bolivia again in 1873 as a representative of Chile, where in 1874 he succeeded in renewing the Chilean-Bolivian border treaty. Success led to his appointment as Plenipotentiary Minister, a position he held until 1875.

In 1869, Walker became head of department in the Chilean Ministry of the Interior and, in 1870, Secretary of Congress. In the following years he was a member of parliament and senator in Congress several times. During the uprising against President José Manuel Balmaceda in 1891, he led underground actions with Gregorio Donoso and Carlos Lira . In the government of Federico Errázuriz Echaurren , he was Interior Minister from 1898 to 1899 as successor to Antonio Valdés . In 1901 he retired from political life.

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SURNAME	Walker Martínez, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vallenar
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 1905
Place of death	Santiago de Chile