Enrique Matta Figueroa

Enrique Matta Figueroa (17 March 1900 – 23 August 1968) was a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as member of the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography He was born in Santiago on 17 March 1900, son of Enrique Matta Vial and Leonor Figueroa Larraín.

He married Marta Rogers Morandé, with whom he had three children. In a second marriage, he married Adelina Larraín del Campo in Santiago on 2 March 1946.

He studied at the Instituto Nacional and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile. He was admitted to the bar on 8 August 1924; his thesis addressed the unconstitutionality of the law.

He served as lawyer for Goodyear, United States Rubber and Siam. He was member of the board of the Caja de Crédito Agrario between 1932 and 1933; head of the Legal Department and later fiscal of the Línea Aérea Nacional de Chile (LAN); and member of the board of the Empresa Periodística La Nación in 1932. He also contributed to the press with political articles, was director of the Revista Chilena and of the Chilean Commission for Intellectual Cooperation.

He was member of the Liberal Party. He was deported by President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and resided in Ecuador between 1927 and 1928.

Upon his return, he was appointed Minister of Development and Minister of Agriculture during the vice presidency of Manuel Trucco Franzani, serving from 2 September to 15 November 1931.

He received the Ecuadorian decoration "Al Mérito". He was member of the Club de la Unión and of the Fifth Fire Company of Santiago, which he joined on 8 December 1916.

He died in Santiago on 23 August 1968.

Political career He was elected deputy for the 7th Departamental Grouping of Santiago for the 1926–1930 period. He served on the Permanent Commissions of Interior Government and Foreign Affairs; and as alternate member on the Permanent Commission of Labor and Social Welfare.

He was author of constitutional works and studies.