Luis Undurraga Correa

Luis Eduardo Undurraga Correa (25 December 1909 – 29 January 1973) was a Chilean lawyer, teacher and politician.

He served three consecutive terms as Deputy for the 1st Departamental Grouping (Tarapacá) between 1945 and 1957, and later represented Curicó and Mataquito from 1969 until his death in 1973.

Biography He was born in Santiago on 25 December 1909, the son of Armando Undurraga Silva and Berta Correa Ariztía. He married Elvira Matta Vicuña, with whom he had five children: José Luis, Isabel, Victoria, Patricia and Jaime.

He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Santiago and later at the University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer in 1932.

He joined the Liberal Party in 1939, where he served as general director (1940–1967), executive board member (1941–1957), and party president (April–November 1965).

In the 1945 elections, he was elected Deputy for the 1st Departamental Grouping (Arica, Iquique and Pisagua) for the 1945–1949 term. He sat on the Permanent Commissions of National Defense; Constitution, Legislation and Justice; and Treasury. He also took part in special commissions on telephone tariffs (1945–1946), the Executive's Economic Control Commission (1946), and Northern Societies (1947).

Re-elected in 1949 and again in 1953, he continued to sit on commissions dealing with national defense, constitutional law, treasury, and internal police matters, as well as special commissions on railways (1950) and the purchase of North American aircraft (1951–1952).

In 1958, he collaborated with Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez’s presidential campaign as head of the Electoral Department.

He also served as a board member of the national airline LAN Chile, from its foundation until 1965.

In 1966, he co-founded the National Party.

In the 1969 elections, he was elected Deputy for Curicó and Mataquito (1969–1973). He sat on the Permanent Commissions of Constitution, Legislation and Justice; Labor and Social Security; and participated in the Joint Commission on judicial reform (1971).

Undurraga died in Santiago on 29 January 1973 of a heart condition. He received a posthumous tribute in the Chamber of Deputies.