Esteban Bedoya

Esteban Bedoya Hundesdoerffer (3 August 1901–?) was a Chilean physician and parliamentarian, affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Biography Bedoya Hundesdoerffer was born in Iquique, Chile, on 3 August 1901, the son of Antonio Bedoya and María Hundesdoerffer.

He pursued his secondary education at the Seminary of Santiago and later studied medicine at the University of Chile. He qualified as a surgeon-physician in 1930, submitting a thesis entitled Peripheral sympathectomy in trophic ulcers of the legs.

In his professional career, he practiced medicine in Santiago, serving as an intern physician at the Hospital San Juan de Dios and as an assistant at the Hospital San Luis. He later specialized in dermatology and venereal diseases, and worked as a physician for labor unions of the public transportation sector.

He married Isaura Espinosa Herrera.

Political career Bedoya Hundesdoerffer joined the Democratic Party in 1936.

In the parliamentary elections of 1945, he was elected Deputy for the 7th Departmental Group —Santiago— First District, for the 1945–1949 term. His election was definitively confirmed by a ruling of the Electoral Qualifying Tribunal dated 13 July 1945, through which he replaced Deputy Manuel Cabezón Díaz, who had been serving in a provisional capacity.

During his term in the Chamber of Deputies, he served as a replacement member of the Standing Committees on Government Interior and on Economy and Commerce.