{{Short description|Chilean socialist politician (1890–1966)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hugo Grove | image = Hugo_Grove_Vallejo.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1890|8|14}} | birth_place = Copiapó, Chile | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1966|12|8|1890|8|14}} | death_place = Viña del Mar, Chile | office = Minister of Lands and Colonization | president = Gabriel González Videla | term_start = 11 March 1952 | term_end = 29 July 1952 | predecessor = Francisco Melfi | successor = Camilo Cobo | office1 = Member of the Senate | constituency1 = 6th Provincial Grouping | term_start1 = 15 May 1933 | term_end1 = 15 May 1945 | party = Socialist Party (1933–1943); Authentic Socialist Party (1943–1949) | occupation = Physician, politician | alma_mater = University of Chile | spouse = Emilie Fontaine | children = 2 }} '''Hugo Grove Vallejo''' (14 August 1890 – 8 December 1966) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician. He served as a Senator between 1933 and 1945, and later as Minister of Lands and Colonization during the government of President Gabriel González Videla.<ref name="BCN">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Hugo_Grove_Vallejo|title=Hugo Grove Vallejo|publisher=Library of the National Congress of Chile|access-date=25 December 2025}}</ref>
==Life and education== Grove was born in Copiapó on 14 August 1890, the son of José Marmaduke Grove Ávalos and Ana Vallejo Burgoa.<ref name="BCN"/> He was the brother of Marmaduke Grove, a revolutionary military officer and founder of the Socialist Party of Chile.<ref name="BCN"/> Grove married Emilie Laura Fontaine Purdon in 1920. The couple had two children.<ref name="BCN"/>
Hugo Grove died in Viña del Mar on 8 December 1966, aged 76.<ref name="BCN"/>
He completed his primary and secondary education at the Liceo of Copiapó and later studied medicine at the University of Chile, qualifying as a physician in 1916. His thesis, entitled ''Contribución al estudio del rol de la colesterina en la litiasis biliar'', was later published in book form.<ref name="BCN"/>
He specialized in general medicine and gynecology, conducting research on cancer treatment and publishing works on the subject.<ref name="BCN"/>
==Medical career== Grove practiced medicine primarily in Valparaíso. He served as director of Hospital San Agustín in 1928, head of the General Surgery section of the Carlos Van Buren Hospital, and chief of the Fourth Hospital Zone of the British Hospital.<ref name="BCN"/>
He was a member of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons of Geneva, and the Medical Society and Medical Union of Valparaíso. He also served as president of the Cooperative Society *La República*, was a board member of the Central Board of Public Welfare, and directed the *Boletín Médico de Chile* from 1925 onward.<ref name="BCN"/>
==Political career== Grove joined the Nueva Acción Pública, which later became the Socialist Party in 1933.<ref name="BCN"/>
In the 1932 parliamentary election, he was elected Senator for Aconcagua for the 1933–1937 term. During this period, he served as a substitute member of the Senate Permanent Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and sat on the Permanent Committee on Hygiene and Public Assistance. He also acted as government delegate to the Local Board of Public Welfare in 1934.<ref name="BCN"/>
He was re-elected Senator in 1937 for the constituency of Aconcagua and Valparaíso, serving until 1945 and continuing his work on the Labour and Hygiene committees.<ref name="BCN"/>
In 1943, he left the Socialist Party and joined the Authentic Socialist Party, which was dissolved in 1949.<ref name="BCN"/>
In the final phase of President Gabriel González Videla’s administration, Grove was appointed Minister of Lands and Colonization, holding office from 11 March to 29 July 1952.<ref name="BCN"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Hugo_Grove_Vallejo Hugo Grove Vallejo — BCN Historia Política]
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