Manuel Chaparro Ruminot

Manuel Chaparro Ruminot (22 January 1894 – 26 December 1953) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He served as a deputy representing the province of Magallanes during the 1933–1937 legislative period and was affiliated with the Regionalist Party of Magallanes.

Biography Chaparro Ruminot was born in Chillán to Guillermo Chaparro White and Herminia Ruminot Orellana. He studied at the Liceo de Aplicación and later pursued legal studies at the University of Chile, qualifying as a lawyer on 20 November 1917. His graduation thesis was titled Estudio económico-administrativo-social del territorio de Magallanes.

He practiced law in the Magallanes region, where he served as a judge, notary, professor, municipal councilor, and regional intendant. In 1919, he worked as secretary of the regional governorship, legal adviser and prosecuting secretary of the Board of Mayors, and as a member of the Board of Education.

During the subdivision of public lands on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, in the Springhill sector (now Manantiales), he obtained a lease for a public land concession, which he named Estancia Último Sendero.

He was socially active in the region, serving as a member of the Club Magallanes, the Club Social, the Rotary Club, and as founder of the Union of Small Livestock Farmers. He was also honorary president of the Provincial Mutualist Federation.

Political career In 1929, Chaparro Ruminot was appointed Intendant of Magallanes, a position he held until resigning on 30 July 1931. He later returned to the office on 29 October 1953, serving until his death.

He was a founding member of the Partido Regionalista de Magallanes (PRM) in 1932 and served for more than two years as secretary to President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo during his first administration.

He was elected Deputy for the province of Magallanes for the 1933–1937 term. His election took place on 5 March 1933, and he assumed office on 2 May of that year. He stood for re-election in 1937 but was not elected.

On 24 December 1953, during the second government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, he was appointed Minister of Lands and Colonization. However, he died in Santiago on 26 December 1953 before assuming the post.