Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra (15 June 1783, in

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(Burgos) – 25 January 1862, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister. Cortázar was a member of the Progressive Party in Spain.
When the government of

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fell on 28 August 1840, he was appointed by Regent

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to form a government in which he became acting Prime Minister and also held the post of Minister of Justice. After 2 weeks, he was replaced by

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. During the

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, he became in January 1847 President of the Congress of Deputies and in September 1847 Foreign minister in the cabinet of

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