Victor Fuentealba

Victor William Fuentealba (September 1, 1922 – April 17, 2024) was an American labor union leader.

Born in the Canton area of Baltimore, Maryland, Fuentealba attended Calvert Hall College High School and then Johns Hopkins University.

As leader of the union, he promoted live music and proposed a tax on blank recording media.

He argued that unfair and illegal means had been used to influence conference delegates, and unsuccessfully called on the government to order a mail-in ballot of all union members.

[4][5] Fuentealba was also prominent in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, having joined in 1946, and rising to serve a term as the organization's judge advocate general.