Sergio Ojeda Doren (23 January 1906 â 1 January 1996) was a Chilean insurance agent, real-estate broker, boxing champion and promoter, and politician who served as Deputy for the 7th Departamental Group between 1953 and 1957.
Ojeda Doren was born in Santiago on 23 January 1906, the son of Armando Ojeda Ureta and Elena Doren Lara. He married Elsa Valdés Contreras in Santiago on 15 June 1929; the couple had three children: Sergio, Ximena and Paz.
He studied at Patrocinio San José (1914), the Seminario Conciliar de Santiago, and the Escuela de Artes y Oficios (1921). In 1923 he entered the Polytechnic Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Ojeda Doren was a member of the Agrarian Labor Party, serving as party president in Santiago's 7th commune in 1949. He also served as a member of the College of Scrutineers.
In the 1953 parliamentary election he was elected Deputy for the 7th Departamental Group (Santiago, 1st District), serving on the Permanent Committee on Public Education. In 1957 he was stripped of parliamentary immunity () for fraud related to the sale of subdivided plots without carrying out the required development work.
Professionally, he worked as a life-insurance agent and real-estate broker. He was also a prominent boxing manager and promoter. A national middle-heavyweight boxing champion, he represented Chile at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam but lost in his first bout against the gold-medal winner VÃÂctor Avendaño. In 1944, together with Luis Simonet, he launched a campaign to revive professional boxing in Chile, improving the sport's national profile. In 1946 he brought world champion Joe Louis to Chile and later helped organize the first Santiago Neighborhood Boxing Championship.
In 1970 he moved permanently to Los Angeles, United States, where he continued working in the boxing world and contributed articles to the Spanish-language newspapers La Opinión and Las Noticias del Mundo. He died in Los Angeles on 1 January 1996, aged 89.