Alberto Naudon Abarca

Alberto Naudon Abarca (12 July 1916 – 17 February 2005) was a Chilean lawyer and politician.

He served as Deputy for the 13th Departamental Group (Cauquenes, Constitución and Chanco) from 1965 to 1973.

Biography Naudon was born in Santiago on 12 July 1916, the son of Adolfo Naudón Lonjour and Pastoriza Abarca Medina. He married María Inés del Río Apablaza, with whom he had three children.

He studied at the Seminario de Chillán and then entered the University of Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1942 with a thesis entitled El seguro de vida de los empleados particulares.

Professional career He practiced law in Cauquenes, serving as legal adviser to Carabineros of Maule and to the State Bank of Cauquenes. He also worked for the Seguro de la Vida de los Empleados Particulares and as substitute judge of the Department of Cauquenes. He was a teacher of Civic Education and Political Economy at the Liceo de Niñas de Cauquenes.

He was a member and former president of the Rotary Club, the Club Deportivo Independiente and the Club Social de Cauquenes. From 1990 to 2004 he practiced law independently, later joining the firm Mario Sharpe & Compañía Ltda., which he directed after Mario Sharpe was appointed Chilean ambassador to Paraguay.

Political career He joined the Radical Party of Chile in 1938 and served as its vice-president from 1966 to 1969. On 3 August 1971 he resigned and joined the Radical Left Party (PIR), becoming a member of its Political Commission.

In the 1965 elections, he was elected Deputy for the 13th Departamental Group (Cauquenes, Constitución and Chanco) for the 1965–1969 term. He served on the Permanent Commissions of Constitution, Legislation and Justice; Agriculture; and Latin American Integration. He also sat on the Special Commissions on Alcoholism (1965), Viticulture (1965), and on the constitutional accusation against Judge Manuel Ruiz Aburto Rioseco (1968–1969). He was also part of the Joint Budget Commission. In 1966, he traveled to San José, Costa Rica, to attend the session of the Education Committee of the Latin American Parliament.

In the 1969 elections, he was re-elected Deputy for the same constituency for the 1969–1973 term. He continued in the Commission of Constitution, Legislation and Justice and again sat on the Commission of Latin American Integration.

In the 1973 elections, he ran again for re-election within the Confederation of Democracy pact but was not elected.

Naudon died on 17 February 2005.