About: Antonio Mazarrasa Quintanilla

Antonio María Andrés Mazarrasa Quintanilla (1864-1941) was a Spanish politician, civil servant and entrepreneur. Politically he initially supported the Carlists, then he joined the breakaway Mellistas, and eventually he engaged in Primoriverrista structures. In the 1890s he was member of the Santander ayuntamiento. His parliamentarian career climaxed during two terms in the lower chamber of the Cortes (1903-1905 and 1910–1914) and one term in the senate (1919-1920). In 1924-1927 he served as civil governor of the Segovia province. In 1928-1936 and 1939-1940 he was the managing director of Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Madrid. Until the late 1920s he was engaged in a family-held Mazarrasa mining conglomerate in Cantabria.