Background
PADILLA VEGA, José Augusto was born on May 16, 1895 in Jucuapa, El Salvador.
PADILLA VEGA, José Augusto was born on May 16, 1895 in Jucuapa, El Salvador.
Graduated Institute Nacional, Tegucigalpa, 1914, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1920.
Assistant, chief, department, of sanitary engineering, bureau of health, 1925-1927. Secretary, 1st Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, 1939. Military attache, Honduran legation to United States, 1942.
Delegate, Interamerican Defense Board, 1942. Padilla and Elisa Vega, both Honduran. Has four daughters and one of captain, 1922.
;; delegate, 1st sanitary congress of Central America and Panama, Guatemala City, 1937. Tech, adviser, Honduran delegation to mediating commission between Honduras and Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, 1938.
Member Honduras-Guatemala boundary commission (first 2d member Honduran delegation, later cngr. and chief of delegation), 1933-1938.