Samuel Venegas

Samuel Venegas
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
11 March 1994 – 11 March 2010
Preceded bySergio Velasco de la Cerda
Succeeded byVíctor Torres Jeldes
Constituency20th District
Mayor of San Antonio
In office
1967–1971
Personal details
Born (1938-04-01) 1 April 1938
Party
SpouseLiliana Rubio
ChildrenFour
OccupationPolitician

Samuel Venegas Rubio (born 1 April 1938) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy from 1994 to 2010.

He began his political involvement in 1952, when he was elected class president and delegate to the student government for one year. In 1955, he founded and became the first president of the National Falange in the commune of Navidad, his hometown, serving until 1957. That same year, he participated in the founding of the Christian Democratic Party (DC) in his commune and served as its first president until 1960.