Domingo Godoy Matte

Jorge Domingo Godoy Matte (19 February 1922 – 23 December 2013) was a Chilean agronomist, businessperson, and politician.

He served as councilman (regidor) of Romeral from 1953 to 1956. He was elected deputy for the Fifth Departmental Group (San Felipe, Petorca, and Los Andes) from 1969 until the dissolution of Congress in 1973, following the military coup. He was initially a member of the Liberal Party (PL), co‑founded the National Party (PN) in 1966, and later joined National Renewal (RN) after Chile's return to democracy.

In his professional career, Godoy held leadership roles in major agricultural institutions, including serving as vice president of the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), president of the experimental station of the National Society of Agriculture (SNA), and advisor to the Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO). In 1963, he also received the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship.

Biography Jorge Domingo Godoy Matte was born in Santiago on 19 February 1922, the son of Domingo Godoy Pérez and Luisa Matte Moreno. He studied at the Instituto Inglés in Santiago before earning a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Chile in 1943. In 1963, he received an Eisenhower Fellowship to pursue postgraduate studies in Agricultural Economics at Abraham Lincoln University in Nebraska.

In 1976, he married television presenter Carmen Ibáñez, with whom he had three children, including future deputy Joaquín Godoy Ibáñez and journalist María Luisa Godoy. He had four children from his first marriage to María Alicia García‑Huidobro Morandé.

In 1966, he helped found the National Party and later served as its president.