Jorge Beeche

Jorge Augusto Beeche Caldera (13 September 1894 – 8 May 1971) was a Chilean politician, mining engineer, and deputy of the Republic.

Biography Beeche was born in Valparaíso, Chile, on 13 September 1894. He was the son of Salustio Beeche Adana and Mercedes Ignacia Caldera.

He studied at the Naval Engineering School of the Chilean Navy and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, United States. He qualified as a mining engineer in 1921.

He began his professional career at the Compañía Minera Tocopilla, later working in the administration of the María Elena nitrate works, owned by the Lautaro Nitrate Company. He subsequently worked independently in mining ventures, and by 1940 was a partner in the firm Beeche, Muñoz y Cía. and in the Compañía Minera de Oro de Taltal, which leased the Esperanza and Taltal nitrate offices.

He was a leader of the Corporation of Nitrate and Iodine and served as president of the National Airline (LAN). He was also a member of the Club de la Unión and the Aerial Club, where he obtained his civil pilot's license.

He married Louise Phillips Fitzgibbon in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, on 1 December 1920, with whom he had two children. In a second marriage, he married Hilda Cisternas Ojeda in Rengo, Chile, on 2 November 1951; they had five children.

Political career Beeche was a member of the Radical Party and served on its Central Board.

In the parliamentary elections of 1937, he was elected Deputy for the Second Departmental Grouping (Antofagasta, Tocopilla, El Loa and Taltal), serving during the 1937–1941 legislative period. During his term, he acted as substitute member of the Standing Committees on Finance, Public Education, Roads and Public Works, and Medical-Social Assistance and Hygiene. He was also a member of the Standing Committee on National Defense.

Beeche died in Santiago, Chile, on 8 May 1971.