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Luis Cruz Donoso (24 September 1916 – 22 September 2008) was a Chilean lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Christian Democratic Party.

He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 12th Departmental Grouping (Talca, Lontué and Curepto) during the 1957–1961 legislative period.[1]

Cruz Donoso was born in Talca on 24 September 1916, the son of Ramiro Cruz Concha and Marta Donoso Gana. He married María Pinochet de la Barra on 17 December 1944, and they had five children: Eugenio, Marta, María Clementina, Juan Pablo, and María Angélica.

He studied at the Liceo Blanco Encalada and the Hermanos de La Salle School. He later entered the Catholic University of Chile to study law, graduating in 1936. He was sworn in as a lawyer on 13 January 1943, with a thesis titled “La usurpación de bienes raíces.”

He practiced law and also worked as a landowner and diplomat. He served as Chile’s ambassador to El Salvador from 1965 to 1967 and as ambassador to Israel from 1968 to 1970.

A founding member of the Christian Democratic Party in 1938, Cruz Donoso was elected Deputy of the Republic for the 12th Departmental Grouping (Talca, Lontué, and Curepto) for the 1957–1961 legislative term. He served on the Permanent Commission of Public Education.

He died in Santiago on 22 September 2008.

  • Valencia Aravía, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: Registros de los ciudadanos que han integrado los Poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo. 2nd ed. Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello.

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