Miguel Castaño Quiñones (23 February 1883 in León, Spain - 21 November 1936) was a Spanish

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

politician, engineer and journalist, member of

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during the

Second Spanish Republic The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 ...

and the first democratically elected

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of León, serving until his assassination in 1936 by

Francoist Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

rebels during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

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1883 births 1936 deaths People from León, Spain Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Mayors of places in Castile and León Politicians from Castile and León Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) Assassinated Spanish politicians Assassinated mayors 20th-century Spanish journalists 1930s assassinated politicians {{Spain-mayor-stub