Horacio Álvarez Mesa (30 November 1881 – July 1936) was a Spanish politician, lawyer and journalist. He was born in

Avilés Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias. The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...

on 30 November 1881, the son of Florentino Álvarez Mesa and Carmen Menendez-Valdes Muñiz. Between 1900–1901 he studied and Philosophy and Letters in the Central University of Madrid, He then studied law and qualified in 1904. He then practised as a lawyer, journalist and Asturian liberal politician. He was municipal secretary of

from 1 May to 14 July 1908. He was President of the arts school "''Sociedad fundadora y protectora de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Aviles''" from 1911 to 1914. In 1917 he became one of the voluntary contributors to the newspaper ''El Progreso de Asturias'' (The Progress of Asturias), founded on 6 January that year by the linguist and journalist Julian G. Orbón.José Luis Campaò Fernande
Más avilesinos en pro de Marcos del Torniello
/ref> They later collaborated with the newspaper ''El Adenlatado'' founded in 1932. He was assassinated at the outbreak of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...

in July 1936.

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* People from Avilés Assassinated Spanish politicians Politicians killed in the Spanish Civil War 1881 births 1936 deaths People murdered in Spain 20th-century Spanish lawyers 20th-century Spanish journalists Politicians assassinated in the 1930s {{Spain-law-bio-stub