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Francisco Antonio Pinto Díaz ( July 23 1785 - July 18 1858 ) was a Chile an Political Figure . He was President Of Chile from 1827 to 1829 . Pinto studied law at the '' Real Universidad De San Felipe '', graduating in 1808 . He began a political career during the period of Chilean History known as the ''Independencia'' ("Independence"), assuming the Vice Presidency of the Republic between 1827 and 1828 , and the Presidency in 1829 . That same year Pinto resigned from the Presidency due to the events that led to the conservative revolution, an event that marked his retirement from public life, to which he would return in the 1840s , as a lawmaker. Pinto was married to Luisa Garmendia Aldunate and had two children, Aníbal Pinto , who would become President of Chile, and Enriqueta Pinto, future wife of President Manuel Bulnes . His grandson, Ignacio Carrera Pinto , became a hero at the War Of The Pacific . Pinto died in Santiago at the age of 72. |