Jorge Errázuriz Echenique

Jorge Errázuriz Echenique (15 December 1917 – 9 September 1976) was a Chilean lawyer, agricultural entrepreneur, diplomat, and liberal politician.

He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 10th Departmental Grouping (San Fernando and Santa Cruz) during four consecutive legislative periods (1945–1961), and was the last president of the Liberal Party before its dissolution in 1966.^[1]

Errázuriz was born in Santiago on 15 December 1917, the son of Jorge Errázuriz Tagle and Gabriela Echenique Zegers. He married María Olivia Grez Matte in Providencia on 18 January 1950, and they had four children, including Gabriela del Rosario.

He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones and later entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer on 18 August 1942 with a thesis titled “Distribución de las aguas.”

In addition to practicing law, he dedicated himself to agricultural production, managing the Los Olmos del Huique estate, specialized in rice and barley cultivation.

A member of the Liberal Party, he was president of its Youth branch before being elected Deputy for the 10th Departmental Grouping (San Fernando and Santa Cruz), serving four consecutive legislative terms between 1945 and 1961.

He later became national president of the Liberal Party from 1965 to 1966, being its last leader before the foundation of the National Party.

In the diplomatic arena, he was appointed Chilean Ambassador to Peru (1961–1965) and subsequently to France during the government of Augusto Pinochet.

He was counsellor of the Caja de Seguro Obligatorio and of the Consorcio de Administraciones Agrícolas. Member of the Club de la Unión, Automóvil Club de Chile, and Club de Golf Los Leones.

He died in Paris on 9 September 1976.

• Valencia Aravía, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: Registros de los ciudadanos que han integrado los Poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo. 2nd ed. Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello.

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