José Santos Salas Morales (8 July 1888 – 16 October 1955) was a Chilean physician and politician. He was a candidate for the presidential election of 1925, where he was defeated by Emiliano Figueroa.
Gonzalez Videla appointed him as mayor of Santiago in 1946, in a position he held until 1950.[1]
Personal life
During his life, numerous rumors circulated that Salas was homosexual due to his effeminate nature, however he did not confirm or deny this in public. Carmen Lazo points out that during a visit to his house, located at Pedro de Valdivia Avenue, Salas confessed that he was asexual since his parents were expecting a daughter and therefore raised him as a female person, and that he had no interest in neither men nor women.[2]
^Lazo, Carmen (September 2005). La negra Lazo(PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Planeta. pp. 40–43. Archived from the original(PDF) on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
Ramón Folch, Armando de. Biografías de Chilenos. Santiago: Ediciones UC.