Manuel Videla Ibáñez

Manuel Videla Ibáñez (Santiago, 15 February 1887 – Santiago, 22 November 1967) was a Chilean civil servant and liberal politician.

He served as Senator for the 3rd Provincial District – Aconcagua and Valparaíso – between 1953 and 1961.

Biography Family and early life He was born in Santiago on 15 February 1887, the son of Benjamín Videla Pinochet and Carmen Ibáñez Ureta. He married Mercedes Vergara Luco, with whom he had three sons: Manuel, Benjamín and Eugenio.

He studied at the Sacred Hearts School of Santiago.

Public and administrative career Videla held numerous administrative and inspection posts throughout Chile. He served as Commissar of the city of Concepción, Head of Rentals and Chief of the Provincial Department in the General Directorate; Intendant of the Maule Province; and Accountant for the Ministries of Railways and Public Works.

He later worked as Inspector of Gold Washings, Inspector of Branches of the Caja Nacional de Ahorros, and as Commissar of Subsistence in Concepción (1945–1948). From 1948 to 1951 he was Departmental Commissar of Subsistence and Prices in Valparaíso, retiring that same year.

Political career Videla was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, of which he served as vice-president, and later joined the Republican Movement.

He was elected Senator for the 3rd Provincial Group (Aconcagua and Valparaíso) for the 1953–1961 term. During his tenure he sat on the Government and Internal Police Standing Committees, and served as alternate on the Finance and Budget, Economy and Commerce, and Public Works and Transport Committees.

He belonged to the Independent Parliamentary Committee (1954–1955) and later to the Republican Movement Parliamentary Committee (1958–1960).

Videla also represented the Senate at the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Pan-American Regional Group (1959–1960).

Death He died in Santiago on 22 November 1967, aged 80.