{{Short description|Chilean politician}} {{Orphan|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jorge Beeche | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1894|9|13}} | birth_place = Valparaíso, Chile | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1971|5|8|1894|9|13}} | death_place = Santiago, Chile | office = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | constituency = 2nd Departmental Grouping | term_start = 15 May 1937 | term_end = 15 May 1941 | predecessor = | successor = | party = Radical Party | occupation = | profession = Mining engineer | parents = Salustio Beeche Adana<br/>Mercedes Ignacia Caldera | spouse = Louise Phillips Fitzgibbon<br/>Hilda Cisternas Ojeda | children = Seven | relatives = | footnotes = }}
'''Jorge Augusto Beeche Caldera''' (13 September 1894 – 8 May 1971) was a Chilean politician, mining engineer, and deputy of the Republic.<ref name="BCN">{{cite web |url=https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Jorge_Augusto_Beeche_Caldera |title=Jorge Augusto Beeche Caldera — BCN |website=Library of the National Congress of Chile |language=es |access-date=4 February 2026}}</ref>
== Biography == Beeche was born in Valparaíso, Chile, on 13 September 1894. He was the son of Salustio Beeche Adana and Mercedes Ignacia Caldera.<ref name="BCN"/>
He studied at the Naval Engineering School of the Chilean Navy and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, United States. He qualified as a mining engineer in 1921.<ref name="BCN"/>
He began his professional career at the Compañía Minera Tocopilla, later working in the administration of the María Elena nitrate works, owned by the Lautaro Nitrate Company. He subsequently worked independently in mining ventures, and by 1940 was a partner in the firm Beeche, Muñoz y Cía. and in the Compañía Minera de Oro de Taltal, which leased the Esperanza and Taltal nitrate offices.<ref name="BCN"/>
He was a leader of the Corporation of Nitrate and Iodine and served as president of the National Airline (LAN). He was also a member of the Club de la Unión and the Aerial Club, where he obtained his civil pilot's license.<ref name="BCN"/>
He married Louise Phillips Fitzgibbon in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, on 1 December 1920, with whom he had two children. In a second marriage, he married Hilda Cisternas Ojeda in Rengo, Chile, on 2 November 1951; they had five children.<ref name="BCN"/>
== Political career == Beeche was a member of the Radical Party and served on its Central Board.<ref name="BCN"/>
In the parliamentary elections of 1937, he was elected Deputy for the Second Departmental Grouping (Antofagasta, Tocopilla, El Loa and Taltal), serving during the 1937–1941 legislative period. During his term, he acted as substitute member of the Standing Committees on Finance, Public Education, Roads and Public Works, and Medical-Social Assistance and Hygiene. He was also a member of the Standing Committee on National Defense.<ref name="BCN"/>
Beeche died in Santiago, Chile, on 8 May 1971.<ref name="BCN"/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Jorge_Augusto_Beeche_Caldera BCN Profile]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beeche Caldera, Jorge Augusto}} Category:1894 births Category:1971 deaths Category:Radical Party of Chile politicians Category:Deputies of the XXXVIII Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Category:Chilean mining engineers