In 1921, the National Convention selected him to be vice president under Bautista Saavedra, but he rejected the position, preferring to remain on the High Court.

[5] Paz began his career at the National School of Tarija, where he worked as a professor in the Faculty of Law and served as the chair of History and Literature.

His tenure was marked by the organization of municipal administration, which until then had been run poorly; affairs of public instruction, sanitation, and hygiene were reorganized during his term.

During his confinement, he was tortured for sixty days, only being released at the request of Amalia Arce de Argandoña, whom Daza held in high regard.

In 1886, between terms in the National Congress, President Gregorio Pacheco appointed him to be the first chancellor of the Juan Misael Saracho University in Tarija.

[3]During this time, he continued to practice law, an endeavor which in 1883 led him to become the district attorney and a member of the Departmental Court of Tarija.

Though the administration of Ismael Montes and Eliodoro Villazón offered him diplomatic posts in Paraguay and Argentina, he rejected them due to political differences between himself and the Liberal Party government.