Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz (27 February 1895,
Callosa d'En Sarrià,
Alicante
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Spain
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, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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– 22 July 1983,
Albi
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France
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) was a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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in exile from 1944 to 1972.
In 1947 he succeeded
José Giral as prime minister of the
Spanish Republican government in exile.
Álvaro de Albornoz y Liminiana succeeded him the same year.
During the period of the
Spanish Second Republic, Llopis was heavily involved with primary education reforms. His achievements in this role were great and this, combined with his dapper appearance and youth, earned him the title of "the
Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred ...
of pedagogy."
[Stanley G. Payne, 'The Spanish Revolution', p. 99]
References
1895 births
1983 deaths
People from Marina Baixa
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic
Politicians from the Valencian Community
Unión General de Trabajadores members
Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France
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