Armando Muñoz Calero y López (15 February 1908 – 8 November 1978) was a Spanish physician and falangist politician. He was a member of the

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during the

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, while he also served as president of the provincial government in Madrid and as deputy-mayor of the

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Biography

Armando Muñoz Calero was born on 15 February 1908 in

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, Murcia. A trained physician, he worked in Lorca for a time. A hardline falangist who held the post of

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' national's inspector of health, Muñoz Calero joined the

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siding with

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to fight the

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in the Eastern Front of

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. He served as a front-line surgeon in the division's medical corps. From 15 February 1943 to 14 January 1946, he presided over the managing committee (''comisión gestora'') that controlled the . He chaired the Organización Médica Colegial from 1945 to 1946. He was a member of the

from 1946 to 1952, again from 1955 to 1958 (in his capacity as National Chief of the ), and finally from 1964 to 1971 (as a member of the National Council of the Movement). He became the president of the Spanish Football Federation on 20 May 1947. He left the later office in 1950 and was replaced by . He would go on to hold the vice-presidency of the

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in the 1960s. He died on 8 November 1978 in

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