Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel y Nebreda (25 December 1917 – 22 October 1976) was a Spanish falangist politician and
State lawyer, who served in important positions during the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Biography
Born in December 1917 in
Burgos
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to a bourgeois family, he joined the
Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU) in 1934. A ''camisa vieja'' Falangist, he entered the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
as volunteer in a ''Bandera'' of Falange.
From 27 November 1969 to 5 December 1975 he served as the President of the
Francoist Cortes.
He was a chief endorser of the (ANEPA).
In the capacity of President of the Council of Regency, he briefly served as
acting Head of State, from Franco's death on 20 November to 22 November 1975, when then
Prince Juan Carlos took an oath and was proclaimed
King of Spain.
He died on 22 October 1976 in the
Ciudad Sanitaria La Paz in Madrid.
His corpse was buried at the San José cemetery in Burgos. On 5 January 1977 he was posthumously bestowed the nobiliary title of Count of Rodríguez de Valcárcel.
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1917 births
1976 deaths
FET y de las JONS politicians
Francoist Spain
Regents of Spain
People from Burgos
University of Salamanca alumni
Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the State Lawyers Corps