Enrique Sánchez Carrasco (28 March 1928 – 19 August 2021) was a Spanish politician and teacher. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as Mayor of Huesca from 1983 to 1995.

Biography

After earning a law degree from the University of Valencia, Carrasco worked as a secondary school teacher in Tarragona, Valencia, Córdoba, and Huesca. In

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

, Carrasco was elected to serve on the Municipal Council of Huesca and acted as a spokesman for the PSOE within the city. In

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

, he was elected Mayor and was re-elected in

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

and

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

. Enrique Sánchez Carrasco died in Huesca on 19 August 2021 at the age of 93.

References

1928 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Spanish politicians Mayors of places in Aragon University of Valencia alumni Spanish schoolteachers Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians People from the Province of Cuenca {{Spain-mayor-stub