Carlos Muñoz Horz

Carlos Muñoz Horz (25 April 1912 – 26 December 1965) was a Chilean lawyer and Radical Party politician. He served as deputy for the Sixth Departamental Grouping "Valparaíso and Quillota" in four consecutive terms between 1953 and 1965.^[1]

Muñoz was born in Maullín on 25 April 1912, the son of Antonio Muñoz and María Horz. He completed his primary and secondary studies in Ancud and Puerto Montt, graduating from the Eduardo de la Barra Lyceum in Valparaíso. He then enrolled at the University of Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1938, presenting a thesis titled El orden público en relación con el Derecho Internacional Privado («Public Order in Relation to Private International Law»), which was approved with distinction.

He joined the Radical Party, where he became first vice-president of the Valparaíso Radical Assembly, party convention delegate, and director of the Radical Club.

On 11 October 1955, after winning the by-election held on 28 August, he replaced deputy Alfredo Nazar, who had died while in office. He was a member of the Permanent Commission on National Defense.

In 1957 he was re-elected deputy for Valparaíso and Quillota (1957–1961), sitting on the Permanent Commission on Agriculture and Colonization.

In 1961 he was again re-elected deputy (1961–1965), participating in the Permanent Commission on National Defense, and serving as alternate deputy on the Commissions on Labor and Social Legislation, and Economy and Trade.

In 1965 he was re-elected for the 1965–1969 term and continued on the National Defense Commission. However, he died before completing his mandate, on 26 December 1965, from cancer. He was succeeded by Juan Montedónico, who won the complementary election of 6 March 1966.^[2] Montedónico also died in office in 1968.

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