Héctor Lahuedé

Héctor Lehuedé Alvarado (21 September 1914 – 16 April 1985) was a Chilean physician and politician affiliated with the Liberal Party. He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 7th Departmental Grouping – Santiago, 2nd District – during the legislative period 1961–1965.

Biography Born in Santiago on 21 September 1914, he was the son of José Lehuedé Fernández and Teresa Alvarado González. He married Blanca Estela Chaparro Rodríguez in Santiago on 20 May 1941, and they had two children.

He completed his secondary education at the Miguel Luis Amunátegui High School before entering the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Chile. He graduated as a surgeon in October 1942, with a thesis entitled “Some Cardiovascular Manifestations in Cerebrospinal Meningitis: A Clinical and Electrocardiographic Study”.

He served as ad honorem physician in the Medicine Service of the Ramón Barros Luco Hospital (1942–1944), then as an interim physician (1944–1951), and later as staff physician until his retirement in 1965. As an internist, he also worked for the Figueroa Alcorta Mutual, the Railway Workers’ Retirement Society, the Commercial Mutual Aid Union, the Football Association of Quinta Normal, and the Red Cross of Renca Commune.

Political and public career A member of the Liberal Party, Lehuedé served as vice president of the Liberal Assembly of the Commune of Quinta Normal. He was elected Deputy of the Republic for the 7th Departmental Grouping “Santiago,” 2nd District, for the 1961–1965 legislative period. During his tenure, he served on the Permanent Commission on Health and Social Welfare.

Other activities He was a member of the Chilean Medical Association, the Medical Society, the Sports Club of the University of Chile, and the Lions Club, where he served as president in 1963–1965 and 1976.

Lehuedé was a founding volunteer and company surgeon of the First Fire Company of Renca, established on 26 January 1951, and later served as surgeon for the Twenty-First Fire Company of Santiago from its founding on 6 October 1979 until his death on 16 April 1985.