1. Marmaduke Grove Vallejo, was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.
16 Facts About Marmaduke Grove
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In 1897, Grove was accepted in the Military Academy, from which he graduated as an artillery sub-lieutenant.
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Marmaduke Grove had a brilliant military career, and from 1920 to 1924 he was Under-Director of the Military Academy.
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Marmaduke Grove was selected to carry the petitions to the president.
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Marmaduke Grove was in charge of obtaining the support from the navy officers, which he got.
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Marmaduke Grove tried his hand at journalism, and had a column in the newspaper La Nacion supporting the committee, under the byline of Ekud.
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In 1925, Marmaduke Grove was promoted to colonel and started a long period of travels through Europe, as military attache.
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Marmaduke Grove managed to escape from there on board a French corvette bound for Tahiti, and from there he went to Marseilles.
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Still, Marmaduke Grove continued conspiring against Montero, and toppled him on June 4,1932 through a military coup.
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Marmaduke Grove then proceeded to create the Socialist Republic of Chile.
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Marmaduke Grove became Defense minister, a position he held from June 5 to June 16,1932.
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Marmaduke Grove became General Secretary of that party in 1938 and president of the Popular Front coalition that won the presidential election that same year with the candidate Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
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Marmaduke Grove was elected Senator on May 9,1934, in a by-election held to replace deceased Senator Eugenio Matte Hurtado, who had died in January of that year.
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Marmaduke Grove's slogan was, "From the jail to the Senate", because he had to campaign from jail, where he was kept for conspiring against President Alessandri.
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Marmaduke Grove was defeated by Carlos Ibanez del Campo and retired from the Senate in 1949.
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Marmaduke Grove died at the age of 75 on May 15,1954, at Santiago, Chile.