page_title: Juan José Palomino Jiménez
section_title: Early public engagements (before 1932)
hierarchical_section_title: Juan José Palomino Jiménez / Early public engagements (before 1932)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Büro von Palomino &amp; Vergara, Jerez de la Frontera, Spanien
context_page_description: Juan José Palomino Jiménez was a Spanish entrepreneur and politician. In business he is known mostly as co-owner and manager of Palomino & Vergara, a sherry brand popular in Spain and beyond between the 1930s and the 1960s; he also contributed to development of the xérès winegrowing business. Politically he supported the Traditionalist cause. In 1932 he was involved in Sanjurjada, a coup intended to topple the Republican government. In 1933–1936 he served as a Carlist deputy to the Cortes, while in 1968–1971 he was president of Junta Suprema Tradicionalista, the top Carlist executive structure.
context_section_description: Little is known about political preferences of Palomino's ancestors; some information suggest they were related to Integrism. In the 1880s his father appeared in El Siglo Futuro as co-signatory of letters, protesting alleged mistreatment of the Catholics. The family of Palomino's in-laws, the Vergaras, were distantly related to the Nocedal family; the Nocedals, the Vergaras and the Palominos maintained family relations. However, there is no confirmed information of either the Palominos or the Vergaras as active in the movement. It is known that Juan José received a “sólida formación tradicionalista” and was very religious, when possible attending the mass every morning. In the late 1910s and the early 1920s he was very active in Congregación Marianista de San Luis Gonzaga, a Catholic charity and educational institution. In 1919 he was noted in labors to contain the Spanish Flu pandemic and in 1920 he grew to membership in provincial executive of the organisation.
  There is nothing known of Palomino's public activity in the early and mid-1920s, the final years of liberal Restoration regime and most of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. It is not known whether he joined the primoderiverista organizations, especially Unión Patriótica and Somatén. However, he was on at least correct terms with the local regime administration, as at unspecified time and in early 1928 latest he was nominated to the Jerez de la Frontera town hall, at the time its members not elected, but appointed by the provincial administration. As councilor he entered two committees: this of policia rural and this of instrucción pública, asuntos jurídicos y cárcel. His membership in ayuntamiento was confirmed in the last voting of the monarchy; the local elections of April 1931, which ultimately brought about the fall of the monarchy, secured Palomino's renewed term in the town hall.
  Information on Palomino's political preferences of the very early 1930s is inconclusive. In October 1930 he was active in Partido Católico Nacional, an Integrist organisation created after the fall of Primo; Palomino entered the local Junta Directiva and became its secretary, apparently on excellent terms with the party leader in Western Andalusia, Manuel Fal Conde. However, in the local elections of 1931 he ran as "gremialista" against the republican-socialist coalition and the following year he was still counted within "minoría gremial". During the first Republican electoral campaign of June 1931 he co-financed the Jerez branch of Acción Nacional, a broad conservative alliance “dominated by an energetic group of middle-class Integrists”. In the summer he co-signed a manifesto, which declared setting up of a “partido político católico” within the general “tradicionalismo-integrista” current. In August he co-founded a local Jerez right-wing alliance Unión de Derechas Independientes and entered its ruling junta; in early 1932 as member of Juventud of Derechas Independientes he invited José Antonio Primo de Rivera to Jerez and entertained him during a banquet. Also in early 1932 he took part in a joint rightist conference in Jerez, attended by one of the Carlist national leaders Conde de Rodezno.
caption: office premises of Palomino & Vergara, Jerez de la Frontera
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