Ricardo de la Cierva y Hoces (9 November 1926 – 19 November 2015) was a Spanish historian and politician.
A native of Madrid, de la Cierva served the constituency of
Murcia
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in the
Congress of Deputies
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It has 350 members elect ...
and
Senate from 1977 to 1982. He was the
Minister of Culture
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for nine months in 1980. Originally a member of the
Union of the Democratic Centre, de la Cierva switched to the
People's Alliance in February 1982, then stepped down from the
Cortes Generales
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The Congress of Deputies meet ...
upon the end of his term in August of that year. De la Cierva won the second prize of the 1988
Premio Planeta de Novela
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Financially, it is the ...
, and also wrote for the magazine ''
Época''. He died in 2015.
Muere el historiador franquista Ricardo de la Cierva
References
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1926 births
2015 deaths
People's Alliance (Spain) politicians
Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain) politicians
Government ministers of Spain
20th-century Spanish writers
20th-century male writers
21st-century Spanish writers
20th-century Spanish historians
Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the Senate of Spain
Writers from Madrid
Politicians from Madrid
Historians of the Spanish Civil War
Anti-Masonry in Spain
Francoists