Eduardo León Villarreal (7 April 1911 – 15 November 1991) was a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician. He served as a cabinet minister during the government of president Eduardo Frei Montalva.
He was the son of Gregorio León Villarroel and Emilia Villarreal Vargas.Biografías de chilenos: miembros de los poderes Ejecutivo, Legislativo y Judicial (1876–1973), Armando de Ramón et al., Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2003, Vol. III, p. 43.
He studied law through courses and seminars at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Valparaíso, being sworn in as a lawyer in 1940. Later, he would also teach law at the same institution.
León Villarreal worked as a lawyer for various workers’ confederations and served as general manager of the Aconcagua Consumers’ Cooperative between 1942 and 1946.
In 1968 he joined Frei Montalva’s cabinet as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, replacing William Thayer Arteaga, and remained in office until the end of the administration in 1970.El Mercurio (Santiago), 16 November 1991, p. C12.
Previously, he had served as Director of Labor in the same ministry.
He was married, in second nuptials, to journalist Genoveva Castro Sauritain, who died in 2006.
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