Pedro Vicuña Novoa

Pedro Félix Vicuña Novoa (born 27 October 1872) was a Chilean lawyer, businessman and politician who served as deputy for the 4th Departamental Circumscription during the 1926–1930 legislative period.

Biography He was born in Santiago, Chile, on 27 October 1872, the son of Hermenegildo Vicuña Mackenna and Filomena Novoa Luco. He married Raquel Bilbao Arana in Buenos Aires.

He studied at the Instituto Nacional and at Colegio San Ignacio, and later entered the School of Law of the University of Chile. He was also a student at the School of Political Sciences in Paris.

In 1889 he served as secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the following year was appointed second secretary of the Chilean Legation in Spain.

He owned oil fields in Salta and Comodoro Rivadavia until 1917. In Argentina he worked in agriculture and engaged in the industrialization of fruits and vegetables for export to the United States and Europe. He was a partner in the Argentine–British company The Tigre Packing Company. He carried out similar agricultural activities in Chile.

He declined to accept a candidacy for mayor of Santiago, considering that the position should be held by a non-political official, as in Paris, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. He was appointed Intendant of Colchagua on 8 October 1935 and later Intendant of Cautín between 31 December 1937 and 24 December 1938.

He traveled to the United States, Europe and Australia, where he studied colonization processes, particularly in the British colonies. In Paris he published his work Estados Unidos, with a prologue written by Agustín Edwards, later edited in Chile.

Political career He was elected deputy for the 4th Departamental Circumscription (La Serena, Coquimbo, Elqui, Ovalle, Combarbalá and Illapel) for the 1926–1930 period. He served on the Permanent Commissions of Industry and Commerce and of Hygiene and Public Assistance.