Carlos José Errázuriz

Carlos José Errázuriz Eyzaguirre (3 March 1919 – August 2003) was a Chilean lawyer, politician, and landowner affiliated first with the United Conservative Party and later with National Renewal. He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 10th Departmental Grouping – San Fernando and Santa Cruz – during three consecutive legislative periods between 1953 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Santiago on 3 March 1919, he was the son of Carlos Errázuriz Mena and Javiera Eyzaguirre Ochagavía. He married María Irene Mackenna Shiell in Santiago on 29 September 1946, with whom he had two children.

He studied at the San Ignacio School and later at the Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was admitted to the bar on 23 November 1944 with a thesis titled “Municipal Responsibility”, graduating with distinction. He later taught as assistant professor of Administrative Law at his alma mater.

Errázuriz dedicated himself to agriculture in the province of Colchagua, managing his estates Lihueimo and La Patagua, as well as the Chada property in Paine.

Political career

He began his political career within the United Conservative Party, serving as head of the Conservative University Group, secretary of the Conservative Youth, member of its National Youth Council, and provisional president of the Conservative Youth in Colchagua. In 1987, he joined National Renewal, where he served as district president in Santa Cruz and as a National Counselor.

Errázuriz served as councilman for the municipality of Palmilla (1947–1950) and as its mayor (1950–1953). In 1953, he was elected Deputy for the 10th Departmental Grouping “San Fernando and Santa Cruz,” and was reelected in 1957 and 1961, serving until 1965. During his parliamentary tenure, he sat on the Permanent Commissions on Public Education, Industry, National Defense, and Government Interior, and participated in numerous special investigative committees, including those on public health, food imports, and the wine industry.

He also presented several motions that became laws of the Republic, among them:

  • Law No. 14.900 (1962) on agricultural credit through commercial banks.
  • Law No. 15.477 (1964) on occupational diseases and lifelong pensions.
  • Law No. 15.907 (1964) granting property titles in Valdivia.

Other activities

Errázuriz was a member of the Christian Center and delegate of the Instituto Federico Errázuriz in Santa Cruz. He was also active in local Catholic civic organizations and regional agricultural associations.

He died in Santiago in August 2003.