Carlos Estévez Gazmuri
Carlos Estévez Gazmuri | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 May 1930 – 15 May 1941 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 December 1870 |
| Died | 11 July 1955 (aged 85) |
| Party | Conservative Party (PCon) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Carlos Estévez Gazmuri (4 December 1870 – 11 July 1955) was a Chilean politician who served as deputy.[1]
He was a member of the Conservative Party.[1]
Biography
He was born in Santiago on 4 December 1870, the son of Ramón Estévez Castillo and Elena Gazmuri Albano. He married María Teresa Vives Bravo in the same city; the marriage produced nine children.[1]
He studied at the Sacred Hearts School and read law at the University of Chile. He was admitted to the bar on 27 March 1893. His thesis was entitled The action for annulment of marriage under Article 34 of the Civil Marriage Law.[1]
He practiced law in Santiago. He served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of War between 1899 and 1905. He later worked as a lawyer for the Fiscal Defense Council in Santiago from 1905 to 1927.[1]
He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chile from 1897 to 1928, first as an extraordinary professor until 1901 and later as a full professor. He also taught Public Finance and Statistics at the Catholic University and served as professor of Constitutional Law there from 1930, a position he still held in 1940.[1] An academic member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences. He was also a councillor of the Catholic University.[1]
Political career
He was elected as a deputy for the 4th Departmental Grouping of La Serena, Coquimbo, Elqui, Ovalle, Combarbalá, and Illapel for the 1930–1932 term, and was re-elected for the 7th Departmental Grouping of Santiago, 1st District, for the 1933–1937 and 1937–1941 terms. He served on the Committee on Constitution, Legislation, and Justice during the 1930–1932, 1933–1937, and 1937–1941 periods, and was president of this committee from 1933 onward—when the term “Constitution” was added to its name—and throughout the final two legislative periods.[1]
A member of the Chilean Bar Association, he was its first elected president and served as a director from 1925 to 1934; he was also vice president. He was a member of the Club de la Unión and the Fernández Concha Conservative Club. He served as president of the Gas Consumers Company of Santiago.[1]
He was the author of the following works: Reforms introduced by the 1925 Constitution to that of 1833 (1942); Elements of Chilean constitutional law (1949); and Manual for the lawyer (1950).[1]
He died on 11 July 1955.[1]