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Basilio Paraiso
Basilio Paraiso, Photo Source: Fundacion Basilio Paraiso
Basilio Paraiso was an Aragonese businessman and politician born in 1849 in Laluenga, a small village in the province of Huesca. The son of a teacher, he studied in Huesca and Zaragoza, where he obtained a degree in medicine 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 Aragon (1898), member of the Congreso de los Diputados (1901) and senator-for-life. He also helped organize the Spanish-French Exposition of Zaragoza in 1908.
In 1916 (in the middle of the First World War), the Conde 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 elevated Garcia Prieto to the same post. Basilio Paraiso died in 1930 in Madrid.