Pascual Madoz Ibáñez
Pascual Madoz Ibáñez (17 May 1806 – 13 December 1870) was a Spanish politician and statistician. Biography In early life Madoz was settled in Barcelona, as a writer and journalist. He envisioned the construction of the Vielha tunnel. He joined the Progresista party formed during the First Carlist War, 1833–40. He saw some service against the Carlists; was elected deputy to the Cortes Generales, Cortes of 1836; took part for Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara, Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana, and then against him; was imprisoned in 1843; went into exile and returned. In 1854 after the Spanish Revolution of 1854, Vicalvarada he was appointed governor of Barcelona. He then returned to his seat as a deputy, presided over the Cortes, and on 21 January 1855 was appointed Minister of Finance. In that role, he proposed and had passed the Spanish confiscation#Confiscation of Madoz (1855), civil confiscation law of 1855 which sold off communal lands, Church lands, and ...
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