- Basilio Paraíso
Basilio Paraíso (b.
Laluenga , Huesca, 1849 - d.Madrid , 1930) was anAragon ese businessman and politician.The son of a teacher, he studied in Huesca and
Zaragoza , where he obtained a degree inmedicine and began his career as a businessman.He was the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1893-1919), founder of the editorial society of the
Heraldo de Aragón (1898), member of theCongreso de los Diputados (1901) and senator-for-life. He also helped organize theHispano-French Exposition of 1908 .In 1916 (in the middle of the
First World War ), theConde de Romanones named him president of the executive committee of the Central Board of Subsistencies, which regulated the production, the level and the price, of commerce, but he resigned in 1917 because of differences with the government that later elevatedGarcía Prieto to the same post.References
*"This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 6 April 2006."
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