Vicente Reyes (politician)

He completed his studies in the Instituto Nacional and at the Universidad de Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1858 with a thesis about the copyright of literary works.

By 1856 he was already well known in the literary circles of the time and as a journalist of the El Ferrocarril newspaper and the La Semana magazine.

He also became a professor at the School of Law of the Universidad de Chile and was one of the original members of the Chilean Academy of Language.

In 1869 he was elected president of the Club de la Reforma, the historical nucleus of the Liberal party.

President Aníbal Pinto designed him Minister of the Interior, a position he held from October 27, 1877 to August 5, 1878.