Cristino Martos Y Balbí
Cristino Martos y Balbí (13 September 1830, in Granada, Spain – 17 January 1893, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish politician and lawyer who served as Minister of State from 1869 to 1870, in a cabinet headed by Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos, and held other important offices such as Mayor of Madrid. He was a member of the Radical Democratic Party. Biography He was educated there and at Madrid University, where his Radicalism soon got him into trouble, and he narrowly escaped being expelled for his share in student riots and other demonstrations against the governments of Queen Isabella. He distinguished himself as a journalist on ''El Tribuno''. He joined O'Donnell and Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana in 1854 against a revolutionary cabinet, and shortly afterwards turned against O'Donnell to assist the Democrats and Progressists under Juan Prim, Rivero, Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta it the unsuccessful movements of 1866, and was oblig ...
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