Jorge Dowling Desmadryl

Jorge Alejandro Dowling Desmadryl (4 August 1903 – 19 July 1979) was a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

Biography He was the son of Jorge Dowling Lord and Petronila Desmadryl Montt. He was the maternal great-grandfather of Camila Vallejo Dowling, Minister Secretary-General of Government.

He studied at the University of Concepción, qualifying as a land surveyor around 1925. In 1929, he married Rebeca Santa María Muñoz in Temuco, with whom he had three children.

Public life He worked primarily in his professional field as a land surveyor and was employed on the permanent staff of the Ministry of Lands and Colonization, a position interrupted only during his term as a member of parliament. In parallel, he pursued studies in mathematics and astronomy and conducted research on indigenous ethnic groups and cultures, particularly after leaving the Ministry to work in private practice. He was the author of Religion, shamanism and Mapuche mythology, published in 1971.

He was a member of the Socialist Party and later of the Socialist Workers' Party. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for the Twenty-second Departmental Electoral District of Valdivia, La Unión, Río Bueno and Osorno for the 1937–1941 legislative period. During his term, he served on the Standing Committee on Industries, of which he was president.