Oscar Casanova Ojeda

Oscar Casanova Ojeda was a Chilean lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a deputy during the XXXVII Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile between 1933 and 1937.

Biography

Casanova Ojeda qualified as a lawyer on 9 December 1931 and subsequently practiced his profession.

He was affiliated with the Democratic Party. In the parliamentary elections, he was elected deputy for the 22nd Departamental Grouping of Valdivia, La Unión and Osorno, serving during the 1933–1937 legislative period.

During his term in the Chamber of Deputies, he served on the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization and on the Standing Committee on Industries. The latter committee was created following a regulatory reform approved on 4 April 1933, which also renamed the former Standing Committee on Development (Fomento) as the Standing Committee on Roads and Public Works.