Juan José Gárate was a student at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He also studied in Rome under a grant from the Provincial Council of Teruel. In 1895 he won the Third Place medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries in Zaragoza and another Third Place medal at the Universal Expo in Paris in 1898. He also won the Second Place medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1904 for The Allusive Couplet (Fine Arts Museum of Zaragoza). He was an award winner at the Regional Expo of 1905 and the Hispano-French Expos in Zaragoza in 1904 and 1908. He won the Second Place medal at the Exhibition of Decorate Art in Madrid (1911) and the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition in Panama in 1916. He focused on regional themes and portraits, and is one of a group of painters who stand half-way between Francisco Pradilla and the new generation of the present century. He was also curator of the Zaragoza Museum.

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He studied Law at the University of Zaragoza and obtained his PhD in Madrid, though he never practised.  He was a politician, a member of the Republican Party and a follower of the ideas of Joaquín Costa. He took an active role in politics and became one of the leaders of the Republican movement in Aragón. In 1920 he founded the Republican Party of Aragón, which later merged with the Democratic Republican Congress organised by Lerroux, with whom he was linked politically from then on.

He was intensely active in parliament, and this was reflected in his ascent as a politician. As a member of parliament in the 1931-1933 legislature, he chaired the Treasury Committee and was involved in matters such as the legislation structuring banks and local treasury offices. On 30 September 1933 he succeeded Julio Carabias as governor of the Banco de España and remained in that post until the crisis of 1934, when Lerroux appointed him Treasury Minister on 3 March. This was a period of political instability exacerbated by crises of government. He stayed on as a member of cabinet under Ricardo Samper and again under Lerroux in coalition with the CEDA. In the successive crises of 1935, he held the portfolios first of Industry and Trade and then of Public Works. The Lerroux government resigned in September 1935. He retired from active politics following the 1936 elections.

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