Armando Quezada Acharán

Armando Quezada Acharán (* 1873 in Los Angeles ; † April 3, 1936 in Viña del Mar ) was a Chilean politician of the Partido Radical and an economist.

Quezada attended the Liceo de Chillán and studied humanities at the Instituto National . This was followed by a law degree at the Universidad de Chile , which he graduated in 1893. After winning a competition, he became a stenographer and clerk for sessions of the House of Representatives in 1891. He held this position until his own election as a member of parliament in 1909.

In 1901 Quezada became a professor of political economy at the Universidad de Chile . In 1905 he joined the Partido Radical and began his active political career. In the 1909–1912 electoral period, he was a member of Congress for the first time as a representative from Santiago, and in 1912 he became its second vice-president. During this period he was an alternate member of the Finance Committee. In the following two terms he was a member of the finance and teaching committee. He also acted several times as finance and interior minister and deputy minister of economics.

From 1918 to 1924 he was a member of the Senate for Santiago. Here he was a member of the committees for agriculture, industry and railways, for finance, for government and elections and for war and navy and chaired the budget committee. In 1922 he was sent to France as ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary; Ismael Tocornal Tocornal took his place in the Senate .

Quezada also worked as director and secretary of the Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (1901 to 1918) and the Liga de Estudiantes Pobres and was rector of the Universidad de Chile in 1929/1930, where the Faculty of Fine Arts was founded under his direction. Among other things, he was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order of the Crown .

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