Emilio Gastón Sanz (8 January 1935 – 22 January 2018) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, and poet. A native of

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

born in 1935, Gastón was a practicing lawyer. He was elected to the constituent

Congress of Deputies The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Ma ...

as a representative of

in 1977, and served until 1979. Gastón was the Justicia de Aragón ("Justice of Aragon", a regional ombudsman) between 1987 and 1993, the first person to assume the position after promulgation of the

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. He was married to poet Mari Carmen Gascón Baquero.

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1935 births 2018 deaths Ombudsmen in Spain 20th-century Spanish judges Members of the constituent Congress of Deputies (Spain) Aragonese-language writers People from Zaragoza {{Spain-law-bio-stub