Alfonso Campos Menéndez

Alfonso Campos Menéndez (19 May 1908 – 30 July 1991) was a Chilean lawyer, businessman and parliamentarian affiliated with the Liberal Party (PL) and later the National Party.

He served three consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies between 1944 and 1953.

Biography Campos Menéndez was born in Punta Arenas to Francisco Campos Torreblanca and María Menéndez Behety. He studied at the Liceo de Magallanes and the Carmen Arriola Marín School in Buenos Aires.

He later attended Cambridge in London, where he began studying law, before returning to Argentina to continue his legal studies at the University of Buenos Aires, qualifying as a lawyer in 1934. He revalidated his degree in Chile in 1942 with a thesis titled Hacia una política preventiva de los seguros sociales.

He married Silvia Gabriela González Markmann ―daughter of the president Gabriel González Videla― in Viña del Mar on 28 September 1948, with whom he had four children.

In his professional career, he served as director of the Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica, Anglo-Lautaro, Banco de Chile and Arena Leasing Andino S.A. He was also a shareholder of Menéndez Behety. Socially, he was president of the Chilean–Brazilian Institute of Culture and a member of various elite clubs, including the Club de la Unión, the Polo Club and the Los Leones Golf Club.

Campos Menéndez died in Santiago on 30 July 1991.

Political career A member of the PL, Campos Menéndez entered parliament during the XXXIX Legislative Period after being elected Deputy for the 24th Departmental Group ―Llanquihue, Puerto Varas, Maullín, Calbuco and Aysén― for the 1941–1945 term, assuming office on 21 May 1944 following the death of Santiago Ernst. He served as replacement member on the Standing Committees on Finance, Social Medical Assistance and Hygiene, and Labour and Social Legislation.

He was re-elected for the XL Legislative Period (1945–1949), serving again as a replacement member on the Committees on Government Interior, Public Education, Social Medical Assistance and Hygiene, and Labour and Social Legislation.

He won a third term in the XLI Legislative Period (1949–1953). During this period, he served on the Committees on Finance, Public Works and Roads, Social Medical Assistance and Hygiene, and was a full member of the Committee on Labour and Social Legislation.