Eduardo Schaerer Vera y Aragn was a SwissParaguayan businessman, publisher, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Republic of Paraguay for the constitutional term 19121916.
Schaerer was born in Caazap, on December 2, 1873 to Mr. Santiago Schaerer and Mrs. Elizabeth Vera y Aragon. His father was a notable swiss colonizer , and the special character that distinguished Schaerer was inherited from him. Schaerer was married to Mrs. Matilde Heisecke , she had seven children with him, one that deserves to be mentioned, was Arturo Schaerer Heisecke, director of the newspaper La Tribuna after his father, and received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, journalism award of the Columbia University, in 1953.
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