Eduardo Osorio Pardo

Jorge Eduardo Osorio Pardo (Navidad, 10 June 1919 – Santiago, 11 October 2003), better known as Eduardo Osorio Pardo, was a Chilean worker and Socialist politician.

He served as deputy in the National Congress of Chile during two separate periods between 1953–1957 and 1961–1969.^[1]

Son of Juan Hipólito Osorio Machuca and Mercedes Pardo Vargas.

He studied at the Public School of San Antonio. Early in life he worked as a laborer and later as an employee at the firm Gianoli y Mustakis in San Antonio, where he eventually became head of exports. Later he moved to Santiago, working at the accounting office of the State Railways Company (EFE) and at the Municipality of Puente Alto.

He married Rosa Elena Contreras Ramírez in 1965, and later Norma del Carmen Carvacho Espinoza in 1972.

A lifelong militant of the Socialist Party, he first entered politics as a regidor (councilman) of San Antonio from 1941 to 1944.

In 1953, he was elected deputy for Melipilla, San Bernardo and San Antonio, serving until 1957, and participating in the Permanent Commission of Roads and Public Works.

In 1961, he returned to Congress as deputy for San Felipe, Petorca and Los Andes, where he was a member of the Permanent Commission of Finance and Industries.

He was reelected in 1965 for the same constituency, this time sitting on the Permanent Commission of Constitution, Legislation and Justice.

• Urzúa Valenzuela, Germán (1992). Historia Política de Chile y su Evolución Electoral 1810-1992 (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Jurídica de Chile.

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