Curriculum

He studied Secondary Education in A Coruña and then in Lugo. Then he studied Law and published his doctoral thesis La doctrina del abuso como limitación del Derecho Subjetivo. When he was 20, he sat in a competitive examination to become a lawyer getting the first position. In 1919, he was elected as a deputy (he was reelected two years later) and nominated as provincial governor in Valencia up to 1922. After the coup d'état carried out by Primo de Rivera, he was nominated as director general of Local Administration and Minister of Treasury in 1925. In 1931, during the Second Republic, he moved to Lisbon and then to Paris, coming back later and being elected as deputy again.