asked the modification of several other articles in the Constitution and the introduction of some others. On July 12, 1947 he was appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Justice after the death of Juan León Mallorquín. On May 2, 1949 he promoted the First Judicial Congress; on 1956 he promoted the second one. In November 1949 Frutos resigned to the Court, after a representative commission of the Red Party asked him to do it in his own home. He denied the request, but they still managed to take him out of the position, not without him arranging an affidavit expressing the illegal situation. References 1879 births 1960 deaths People from Asunción Presidents of Paraguay Paraguayan judges Colorado Party (Paraguay) politicians Universidad Nacional de Asunción alumni 20th-century Paraguayan lawyers