Alfredo Macario Lorca

Alfredo Macario Lorca Valencia (1912 – 24 December 1989) was a Chilean lawyer and politician, member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served as deputy between 1957 and 1969, senator between 1969 and 1973, and was president of the Chamber of Deputies between 1967 and 1968.

Biography He was born in Chillán in 1912, the son of Alberto Lorca Manterola and Auristela Valencia González. He married Teresa Morales Núñez on 15 October 1946 in Santiago, with whom he had one daughter, María Teresa.

He studied at the Seminario de Chillán and pursued law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 1955 with the thesis La Acción Pauliana en el Derecho Romano. He also worked as the owner of an importing firm and served as a councillor of the Caja de Habitación Popular.

He joined the Falange Nacional in 1939, later becoming a founding member of the Christian Democratic Party in 1957, where he helped establish the party’s labor department and contributed to the creation of the Central Única de Trabajadores.

Political career In 1957 he was elected deputy for the 7th Departamental Group (Santiago), a position he held until 1969 through consecutive reelections. He integrated various commissions, including Agriculture, Public Works, Interior Government, Finance, Labor and Social Legislation, Public Education, Police, Constitution and Justice, Foreign Affairs, and Housing and Urbanism. In 1965 he was part of the Chilean delegation to the 20th United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Between 1967 and 1968 he was President of the Chamber of Deputies.

In 1969 he was elected senator for the 10th Provincial Constituency (Chiloé, Aysén and Magallanes), integrating the commissions of Government, Interior Police, Public Works and Public Education. His seat was newly created, so his initial term was for four years. He was reelected in 1973 for the period 1973–1981, but his mandate was interrupted by the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which dissolved Congress.

During the military dictatorship, he collaborated with the regime in legal and political matters until 1977, when the Christian Democratic Party went underground. He then retired from public life.

Death Alfredo Macario Lorca died in Santiago on 24 December 1989.