Mario Sharpe
Mario Sharpe Carte (1918–2013) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Radical Party of Chile and later the Chilean Social Democracy Party.
He served as Deputy for the 19th Departamental Group during the XLII Legislative Period (1957–1961), the XLIII Legislative Period (1961–1965), and again in the XLVI Legislative Period (1969–1973).
Early life
He was born in Mulchén on 25 December 1918, the son of Juan Arturo Sharpe del Campo and María Isabel Carte Pinochet. He studied law at the University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer in 1945 with a thesis titled La prueba en el Derecho Mercantil ("Evidence in Commercial Law").
Political career
Sharpe was first elected Deputy in the 1957 elections for the 19th Departamental Group. He was re-elected in 1961, and after a hiatus, again in the 1969 elections. He served on the Permanent Commissions of Labor and Social Legislation, Agriculture and Colonization, and was a substitute member of the Permanent Commissions of Interior Government and Economy and Commerce.
In 1971, he resigned from the Radical Party and joined the Radical Left Party, and later became a member of the Chilean Social Democracy Party.
During the military dictatorship, he was a leader of the opposition coalition Democratic Alliance, serving twice as its president in 1984.
With the return to democracy, President Patricio Aylwin appointed him Ambassador of Chile to Paraguay, a position he held from 1990 to 1994.