Manuel Portela y Valladares (
Pontevedra
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, 31 January 1867 –
Bandol
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,
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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,
France
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29 April 1952) was a
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political figure during the
Second Spanish Republic
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. He served as the 43rd
Attorney General of Spain between 1912 and 1913.
A member of the
Liberal Party
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, he served as civil governor of
Barcelona
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in 1910 and 1923, and as Minister of Promotion in September 1923. After the socialist revolution against the republican government in October 1934,
Alejandro Lerroux
Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864, in La Rambla, Córdoba – 25 June 1949, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party. He served as Prime Minister three times from 1933 to 1935 and held severa ...
named him Minister of the Interior in 1935 and named 130th president of the government (prime minister) by
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres (6 July 1877 – 18 February 1949) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served, briefly, as the first prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then—from 1931 to 1936—as its president.
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on 14 December 1935 . He formed two governments prior to the
elections of 16 February 1936 that the
Popular Front
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won.
1867 births
1952 deaths
People from Pontevedra
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