Pedro Jáuregui

Pedro Antonio Jáuregui Castro (12 February 1912 – 5 October 1991) was a Chilean surgeon and politician.

He served as a deputy between 1969 and 1973. Previously, he was a councilman of Osorno.

Biography He was the son of Pedro Antonio Jáuregui and Melania Castro. He married first on 1 February 1941, to Blanca María Rita Hidalgo Saldías, with whom he had three children; and second on 3 June 1957, to Victoria Álvarez-Santullo, with whom he had one son.

He completed his primary and secondary studies at the Patrocinio de San José and the Liceo San Agustín. After finishing school, he entered the School of Medicine of the University of Chile, where he graduated as a surgeon in 1937.

Once graduated, he worked as an internist at the Hospital of Osorno, where he also served as head of the Medicine Department and interim director. He worked in the National Medical Service of Employees (SERMENA) between 1949 and 1955; presided over the Osorno Medical Society in 1954; and chaired the local Medical Association in 1966. In 1967, he led a Symposium on Alcoholism held in Osorno.

He was also a member of the Cuerpo de Bomberos (Fire Department).

Political career In 1959 he joined the Socialist Party of Chile (PS). In 1960 he was elected as councilman of Osorno, serving until 1963, and was reelected until 1967.

In 1969 he was elected Deputy for the 23rd Departmental Group (Osorno and Río Negro). He joined the Permanent Commission of Public Health and the Investigative Commission on Credit Concessions by the Banco del Estado (1969–1970).

On 8 August 1971 he resigned from the Socialist Party and joined the Independent Radical Left Movement. On 15 April 1972 he officially became part of the Radical Left Party (PIR).