Manuel Diez García

Manuel Diez García (5 April 1898 – 3 March 1954) was a Chilean teacher, lawyer and conservative politician who served as a Deputy during the XXXIX Legislative Period of the National Congress.

A lifelong militant of the Conservative Party, he was president of the conservative students at the Pedagogical Institute (1920) and served as a councillor (Regidor) of Curicó (1938–1941).

He was elected Deputy for the 12th Departmental Group (Talca, Curepto and Lontué) for the 1941–1945 term, serving on the Permanent Committee on Constitution, Legislation and Justice.

Biography Diez García was born in Victoria, Malleco Province, to Juan Diez y Diez and Catalina García Alonso, both Spanish immigrants from León.

He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Concepción and later at the Seminary of Santiago.

He pursued higher studies at the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating as a teacher of Spanish and Civic Education in 1921 with a thesis on La Araucana. He later earned his law degree in 1923 with the thesis Algunas consideraciones legales sobre la propiedad austral.

He married twice: first to Yolanda Urzúa Ravanal (1924–1933), with whom he had five children including Sergio Diez Urzúa, and later to Victoria Silva Grez (1935–1954), with whom he had three children.

Diez García worked as a teacher in the liceos of Talca and Curicó (1928–1941), and at the Polytechnic Institute of the Catholic University.

As a lawyer, he practiced in Talca, Curicó and Santiago, serving also as counsel to the Reconstruction Office (1928–1932) and to the Banco Español de Chile (1932–1937).

He engaged in agriculture, managing the “María Yolanda” estate in Malleco.