Gerardo Ahumada Pacheco

Gerardo Ahumada Pacheco (30 December 1913 – 20 August 2009) was a Chilean lawyer and politician affiliated with the Socialist Party of Chile.

He served as Senator for the 5th Provincial Group (O’Higgins and Colchagua) during the 1953–1961 legislative term.

Biography He was born in Rengo on 30 December 1913, the son of José Miguel Segundo Ahumada Moya and María Fidelisa Pacheco Molina. He was the brother of former Senator Hermes Ahumada.

He studied at the Liceo de Rengo and the Liceo de San Fernando, later entering the University of Chile School of Law. He was sworn in as a lawyer on 4 December 1940; his thesis, «El arbitrio judicial ante el derecho penal», was published in 1938.

On 28 September 1947 he married Gabriela Theoduloz-Theoduloz, with whom he had six children.

Political career A member of the Socialist Party of Chile from 1940, Ahumada also served as councilor (regidor) for the commune of Rengo. Because of internal differences, he later ran as an independent candidate.

He was elected Senator for the 5th Provincial Group (O’Higgins and Colchagua) for the 1953–1961 legislative period. During his tenure, he sat on the Permanent Committees on Mining and Industrial Development, and Agriculture and Colonization, and served as substitute member of the Permanent Committee on Labor and Social Welfare.

He died in Santiago on 20 August 2009, aged 95.