Carlos Montané

Carlos Montané Castro (31 August 1901 – 30 July 1964) was a Chilean accountant, public servant, farmer, and politician affiliated with the Radical Party. He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 15th Departmental Grouping – Itata and San Carlos – across five consecutive legislative periods from 1945 to 1964.

Born in San Carlos on 31 August 1901, he was the son of Carlos Montané and Elvira Castro. He married María Inés Ramírez Bahamondes in his hometown on 7 March 1925, and they had two children: Inés and Carlos.^[1]

He studied at the Colegio San Ignacio of Santiago and at the Liceo de Concepción. Montané began his professional career as a customs employee in Penco and later in Talcahuano. He served as municipal treasurer of Quirihue, treasury inspector for Ñuble Province, section chief at the same institution, and provincial inspector of treasuries in Concepción and Arauco. He was also treasurer of Los Andes, accounting controller for the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO), and later a member of its board of directors in 1948. He retired in 1954.^[2]

As a farmer, he managed the estates “Chipre” and “El Mirador” in the Itata Region, where he became active in agrarian and production associations such as the Viticultural Union and the National Poultry Producers Consortium.

A member of the Radical Party, Montané was elected Deputy for the 15th Departmental Grouping “Itata and San Carlos” for the legislative periods 1945–1949, 1949–1953, 1953–1957, 1957–1961, and 1961–1965. During his parliamentary career, he served on the Permanent Commissions of Finance, Public Works, and Economy and Trade.^[3]

In addition to his legislative work, he represented Chile abroad as Ambassador to Mexico during the 1945 presidential inauguration and as Ambassador to Paraguay in 1963.

He died in Santiago on 30 July 1964, less than a year before the end of his final term, and was not replaced via a complementary election.

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