Emilio Rabasa

Emilio Rabasa was born on 22 May 1856 in Ocozocoautla, in Chiapas, the son of an emigrant from Catalonia. A lawyer trained in Oaxaca in 1879, a deputy and a judge, he governed Chiapas in the early 1890s and sat in the Senate until 1913; his books on constitutional law are authoritative, and in 1912 he was the central figure in the founding of the Escuela Libre de Derecho. He co-founded the daily El Universal. Head of Huerta's delegation at Niagara Falls in 1914, he lived in exile in New York until 1920 and died in Mexico City on 25 April 1930.

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• NovelLa bolaEmilio Rabasa · 1887not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain