Government Service
He served as Philippine Solicitor General in 1917 and 1918, as Attorney-General from 1918 to 1920, and as Secretary of Justice from 1920 to 1921. As Attorney-General, Parades was a member of the first parliamentary mission to the United States in 1919. He resumed the practice of law in Manila in 1921.
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