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Real Academia De Ciencias Morales Y Políticas
The Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (RACMP, English: Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) is a forum for the sharing of social, economic, philosophical, political and juridical knowledge. It was created on 30 September 1857, by Royal Decree, during the reign of the Queen Isabella II of Spain, Isabella II. The Academy provides a place for debate on ideas and major questions facing our society; serving as a center for the diffusion of knowledge and an investigative laboratory. Its work is based on the cumulative knowledge of its Academicians; significant personalities from the fields of politics, economics and social sciences of the last century and a half. The objective was to establish a counterpart to the Real Academia de la Historia. In pursuit of that goal, its first members included progressive thinkers such as Salustiano Olózaga in addition to more moderate figures, which included Juan Bravo Murillo and Modesto Lafuente y Zamalloa, Modesto Lafuente ...
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Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez
Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Cortés (Hoyo de Manzanares, Madrid, 2 August 1913 - Madrid, 27 August 2009) was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was minister of Education under Franco (1951-1955) but he drifted apart from the Francoist State since 1956 and, adopting a Christian Democrat position, steadily started to promote a quiet transition to democracy, especially through '' Cuadernos para el Diálogo'' magazine. He was considered one of the most relevant figures of the moderate inner opposition to Francoism. Failing to play a relevant role during the 1977 democratic elections, he was later elected as the first Spanish Ombudsman. Biography Early life Ruiz-Giménez was son of Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez, Liberal politician who was minister twice under Alfonso XIII and mayor of Madrid. While student at the University of Madrid, he participated actively in the students' catholic organizations and in 1935 he was elected secretary-general of the National Catholic Students Confederation. A ...
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Alfonso García Valdecasas
Alfonso García-Valdecasas y García-Valdecasas (14 May 1904 – 11 April 1993) was a Spanish professor of civil law, lawyer, politician, and founding member of the Falange Española. Biography Alfonso García-Valdecasas was born on 14 May 1904 in Montefrio, Granada. He obtained a doctorate of law from the University of Bologna in 1925, and became a chair at the university. Together with Fernando de los Ríos, Luis Jiménez de Asúa, Felipe Sánchez-Román Gallifa, Wenceslao Roces and José Ortega y Gasset, García-Valdecasas resigned from his position as chair in 1929 in protest due to Spanish leader Miguel Primo de Rivera's persecution of student politicians. In 1931, García-Valdecasas joined the parliamentary group known as ''Agrupación al Servicio de la República'' ("The Grouping at the Service of the Republic"), an organization of intellectuals created by José Ortega y Gasset to support Spanish Republican politicians. He was soon elected as deputy of the Granada con ...
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José De Yanguas, 11th Viscount Of Santa Clara De Avedillo
José de Yanguas y Messía, 11th Viscount of Santa Clara de Avedillo (25 February 1890, in Linares, Jaén, Spain – 30 June 1974, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish noble, politician and diplomat who served as Minister of State and president of the National Assembly during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and Ambassador to the Holy See during that of General Francisco Franco. A fervent monarchist, he conspired against the Spanish Second Republic, and worked with Accion Espanola, a group and magazine which endeavoured to lay ideological foundations for a rebellion. He joined the Uprising of 1936 as soon as it began and drew up the Junta's decree of 29 September 1936 that proclaimed Franco Chief of the government of the Spanish State.Hilari Raguer, Gunpowder and Incense, p.193 He was son of Don José de Yanguas y Ximénez and of Doña Mª de la Blanca Messía y Almansa, of the IX marquises of Busianos. He married in Madrid, the 6 May 1928, Doña Rosario Pérez de Herrasti y Orella ...
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Antonio Goicoechea
Antonio Goicoechea (21 January 1876, in Barcelona – 11 February 1953, in Madrid) was an Alfonsism, Alfonsine monarchist politician and lawyer in Spain during the period of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He started to become politically relevant when he became the leader of the Maurism, Juventudes Mauristas, and he would later serve as Ministry of the Interior (Spain), Minister of the Interior from 15 April 1919 to 20 July 1919 in a Antonio Maura, Maura cabinet. He led the authoritarian ''Renovación Española'' political party. Prior to the Civil War, Goicoechea in 1934 had negotiated along with the Carlism, Carlists Antonio Lizarza Iribarren and Rafael de Olazábal y Eulate with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on a military agreement to guarantee Italian support of their movements if a civil war erupted in Spain. However, according to Lizarza, when the Civil War erupted in 1936, it had not been initiated by Goicoechea or other members of the agreemen ...
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Joaquín Sánchez De Toca
Joaquín Sánchez de Toca y Calvo (24 September 1852 – 13 July 1942) was a Spanish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister in 1919. Biography Born in Madrid on 24 September 1852, he became Mayor of Madrid in 1896, and held the office until 1897. He served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce from 23 October 1900 to 6 March 1901 during the Regency of Maria Christina of Austria. Already in the majority of Alfonso XIII of Spain, he served as Minister of the Navy (6 December 1902 – 20 July 1903) and as Minister of Justice (5 December 1903 – 16 December 1904) in the conservative governments of Francisco Silvela and Antonio Maura, respectively. He made a comeback as Mayor of Madrid in 1907. In the later years of the constitutional period of the Alphonsine monarchy he was named Prime Minister replacing Antonio Maura. He led the cabinet from 20 July 1919 to 12 December 1919. He died on 13 July 1942 in Pozuelo de Alarcón Pozuelo de Alarcón () is ...
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Alejandro Groizard Y Gómez De La Serna
Don Alejandro Groizard y Gómez de la Serna (18 June 1830 – 5 September 1919) was a Spanish noble and politician who served as Minister of State Minister of State is a title borne by politicians in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a Minister of State is a Junior Minister of government, who is assigned to assist a specific Cabinet Minister. In o ... between 1894 and 1895. , - Foreign ministers of Spain Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain 1830 births 1919 deaths Liberal Party (Spain, 1880) politicians Justice ministers of Spain Presidents of the Senate of Spain {{Spain-politician-stub ...
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Antonio Aguilar Y Correa
Don Antonio Aguilar y Correa, 8th Marquess of la Vega de Armijo, 6th Marquess of Mos, Grandee of Spain (30 June 1824, in Madrid, Spain – 13 June 1908) was a Spanish noble and politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain between 1906 and 1907, and was appointed three times Minister of State, in governments headed by Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. Titles *8th Marquess of la Vega de Armijo *6th Marquess of Mos, Grandee of Spain *5th Count of Bobadilla *5th Viscount of Pegullal A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ... Ancestry References , - , - , - 1824 births 1908 deaths Marquesses of Spain Counts of Spain Prime Ministers of Spain Foreign ministers of Spain Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Knights of the Golden Fleece Grand ...
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Laureano Figuerola
Laureano Figuerola y Ballester (4 July 1816, in Calaf – 28 February 1903, in Madrid) was a Spanish lawyer, economist and politician who served as the Ministro de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas (now the Ministro de Economía, Industria y Competitividad) during the Sexenio Democrático. He is best known for officially establishing the peseta as Spain's currency. Biography After completing his studies In philosophy, he took a Bachelor's degree in Law in 1838, then received his doctorate from the University of Barcelona in 1840. He became a substitute professor of constitutional law there and, in 1845, was promoted to Professor of Administrative Law and Political Economics. In 1853, he became a Professor of Political Economics and Law at the Central University of Madrid. Four years later, he became one of the first members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (RACMP) and, together with several associates, including José Echegaray and Segismundo Moret, ...
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Francisco De Cárdenas Espejo
Francisco de Cárdenas Espejo (4 February 1817, Seville - 3 July 1898, Madrid) was a Spanish lawyer, journalist and politician who served as Minister of Justice under King Alfonso XII."Ministros y miembros de organismos de gobierno. Regencias, Juntas de Gobierno, etc (1808-2000 Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council Previously he served as 5th Solicitor General of Spain. Biography After studying law in his home town, in 1839 he became Professor of Moral Philosophy, Logic and Grammar at the University of Seville. In 1853, he was elected a Deputy for the Province of Zaragoza and, in 1864, was named a Senator for life. Following the Revolution of 1868, he retired from politics and did not return to elected office until after the Bourbon Restoration when he was chosen as a Senator for the Province of Córdoba and reaffirmed as a Senator for life in 1877. He served as Minister of Justice from 1874 to 1875 during the government of Anton ...
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Manuel García Barzanallana
Manuel García Barzanallana García-Frías (17 August 1817, Madrid - 29 January 1892, Madrid) was a Spanish politician and government official who served as Ministro de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas (now known as the Ministro de Economía, Industria y Competitividad) during the reign of Isabella II. Biography His father was head of the Customs Office in Asturias. He studied in several cities, ending at the University of Barcelona, where he graduated in 1840. After working for four years as a lawyer in Madrid, he became a civil servant in the Ministro de Hacienda and, in 1845, was promoted to Assistant Director in the Customs Office. In 1846, he was elected to the Congress of Deputies on the Moderate Party ticket, representing Cangas de Tineo. Between then and 1865, he was returned to office several times, representing various constituencies. In 1853, he became Director General of Customs and was appointed to his first term as Ministro de Haciendas in 1856. The foll ...
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Lorenzo Arrazola Y García
'' D.'' Lorenzo Arrazola y García (10 August 1797, in Checa, Guadalajara, Spain – 23 February 1873, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish lawyer, politician and statesman best known for being Prime Minister of Spain, a six term Minister of Justice and two-time President of the Supreme Court. Early life García was born in Checa, a small town in Guadalajara. He was able to attend a seminary with the help of his mother's brother, mayor of a village in Benavente. There, he completed his early education, eventually graduating with a degree in theology and philosophy, during which time he became fluent in Latin. At 26, García left the seminary in order to join the military, against his uncle's wishes. He later went to Valladolid to study civil jurisprudence, becoming chair of the philosophy department and, later, rector of the university. García then went to Complutense University, where he spent a decade as a part of the faculty. In 1829, he married Ana Micaela Guerrera. She ...
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