Tomás Alejandro Ríos Valdivia (September 29, 1901, Valparaíso, Chile – July 30, 2000, Santiago, Chile) was a Chilean pedagogue and politician, minister of state under presidents Gabriel González Videla and Salvador Allende, as well as deputy for Santiago between 1945 and 1953.
[1] His parents were Moisés Ríos González and Rita Valdivia Muñoz.
[1][2] He studied at the Seminary of Santiago and then at the Liceo de Aplicación [es], also in the Chilean capital.
He then entered the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile to study pedagogy.
[1][2][8] He was elected as a deputy for the 7th Departmental Group of Santiago, first district, during the periods 1945–1949 and 1949–1953.