[5] He was born to parents Guillermo Figueroa Molina (1867-unknown) and María Isabel Parot Silva (1865-1946), of Spanish-French descent.

[4] His brother, Guillermo Figueroa Parot (1893-1967) was a banker and General Manager of the Emergency Housing Foundation.

[8] During 1952, he was head of the propaganda department in the campaign of presidential candidate Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who won the elections of that year;[9] He was chosen for the position by Arturo Olavarría, who served as Chile's Minister of the Interior under the presidency of Pedro Aguirre Cerda.

[7] He served as Intendant and Mayor of Santiago in 1953, holding those positions from February 20 to June 19, 1953, under the government of then-President Carlos Ibáñez.

In 1957, he was a pre-candidate for the Popular Action Front, but the candidacy was finally ceded to Salvador Allende, who would become president of Chile 13 years later.