Juan Fuentealba Oreño

Juan Fuentealba Oreño (20 June 1906 – 12 April 1997) was a Chilean English teacher and politician who served as Deputy for the 21st Departamental Group—Temuco, Lautaro, Imperial, Pitrufquén and Villarrica—from 1953 to 1957.

Biography Juan Fuentealba Oreño was born in Temuco on 20 June 1906, the son of Juan Ignacio Fuentealba Loyola and María Oreño Escalona. He married Jesús Amada Quero Urrutia in 1940, with whom he had two children; in a second marriage to Julia Nora Meza Soto, he had one more child.

He studied at the Temuco High School and later at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile, earning the degree of State Professor of English.

Fuentealba worked as an English teacher in the high schools of Ancud, Temuco, the Instituto Nacional, and the Instituto Nacional Barros Arana, continuing in teaching until his retirement in 1966.

He was active in civic and social organizations, including the Pitagórica Lodge No. 8 of the Chilean Freemasonry, and was also a member of PROMACH.

He died in Santiago on 12 April 1997.

Political career Fuentealba was a member of the Radical Doctrinarian Party. He was elected Deputy for the 21st Departamental Group—Temuco, Lautaro, Imperial, Pitrufquén and Villarrica—for the legislative term 1953–1957.

During his tenure he sat on the Permanent Commissions of Public Works and of Medical-Social Assistance and Hygiene.