José Manuel Tagle

José Manuel Rafael Tagle Valdés (8 July 1916 – 28 September 2009) was a Chilean agricultural engineer, farmer, and politician. He was a member of the Conservative Party, the United Conservative Party, and later the National Party. He served as Deputy for the 7th Departamental Grouping (Santiago, Second District) in two periods between 1961 and 1973.

He was born in Santiago on 8 July 1916, the son of Alberto Tagle Ruiz and Leonor Valdés Ortúzar. He married María Luisa Errázuriz Eyzaguirre and had five children. He studied at the Liceo Alemán in Santiago and later graduated as an agricultural engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

In 1938 he was elected councilman of Peñaflor, a position he held through several re-elections until 1953.

In the 1961 elections, he was elected Deputy for the United Conservative Party in the 7th Departamental Grouping (Santiago, Second District), for the 1961–1965 term. He sat on the Permanent Commissions of Public Works; Agriculture and Colonization; Labor and Social Assistance; Economy and Trade; Treasury; Internal Government; Police and Regulations; and Constitution, Legislation and Justice. He was also a member of Special Commissions on Housing (1961); Nitrate (1961); National Sugar Industry S.A. (1962); the National Petroleum Company (1963–1964); Copper (1961–1963); and Earthquake (1965).

In 1966 he joined the newly created National Party.

In the 1969 elections, he was elected again, this time as a National Party Deputy for the same constituency, serving the 1969–1973 term. He participated in the Permanent Commissions of National Defense; Housing and Urban Development; Economy and Trade; Internal Regime; Administration and Regulations; and in 1969 on the Special Investigating Commission on the activities of the livestock company "Tierra del Fuego".^[1]

He died on 28 September 2009.^[2]

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