Alejandro Mon Menéndez
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Alejandro Mon y Menéndez (born February 26, 1801 in Oviedo , † November 1, 1882 ibid) was a Spanish legal scholar , politician and Prime Minister of Spain .
biography
Member of Parliament and Minister of the Treasury
After attending school, he studied law at the University of Oviedo .
He began his political career on October 2, 1836 , when he was elected Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Diputados ), where he initially represented the interests of the constituency of Oviedo until February 1841 .
On December 16, 1837 he was first appointed Minister of the Treasury ( Ministro de Hacienda ) in the government of Narciso Heredia Begines , of which he was a member until September 6, 1838. On September 15, 1843, he was then re-elected member of parliament. This time he represented the interests of the constituency Oviedo and temporarily the constituencies of Cádiz , Pontevedra and Madrid only with a short break until November 1864 .
On May 3, 1844, he was reappointed Minister of the Treasury and was as such a member of the Ramón María Narváez government until February 12, 1846. In the meantime, he was acting Foreign Minister from May to June 1844 ( Ministro de Estado ). Prime Minister Francesco Xavier de Isturiz then reappointed him as Minister of the Treasury on April 12, 1846. As such, he remained in office until the end of Isturiz's tenure on January 28, 1847. During this time, his tenure as finance minister was particularly marked by a serious economic crisis and a high budget deficit, which were the result of the Carlist Wars . Nevertheless, in 1845 he successfully tried to balance the budget.
Subsequently, he was from November 16, 1847 to March 26, 1848 for the first time President of Parliament. On August 11, 1848 he was reappointed Minister of the Treasury and as such was a member of Narváez's third cabinet until August 19, 1849.
He then retired from government policy for several years and it was not until October 25, 1857 that he entered the government of Francisco Armero Peñaranda as treasury minister , to which he belonged until January 14, 1858. Later he was envoy to the Holy See , Paris and Vienna, and over the next few years turned down all offers to take over a ministerial office.
On November 26, 1857, he was one of the 36 founders of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas and took chair 36 there until his death in 1882.
It was not until February 19, 1862 that he reappeared when he was re-elected President of Parliament until October 31, 1862.
Prime Minister during the reign of Isabella II and the last years of his life
As the successor to Lorenzo Arrazola García , he was finally appointed Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Consejo de Ministros ) by Isabella II herself on March 1, 1864 during the crisis of the Liberal Union ( Unión Liberal ) .
In his cabinet, which was in office until September 16, 1864, he also temporarily took over the office of the incumbent naval minister ( Ministro de Marina ) in March 1864 , from April to May 1864 the incumbent foreign minister ( Ministro de Estado ), in June and July 1864 des Acting Minister for Grace and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ) and from August to September 1864 the incumbent Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) during the absences of the respective incumbent. Although his term of office only lasted a little more than six months, it was the most influential cabinet of the time. In particular, it was the first cabinet in which Antonio Cánovas del Castillo , later the most influential politician and multiple prime minister between 1874 and 1897, was interior minister took over a government office.
His successor as Prime Minister was then Narváez, who formed his sixth cabinet on September 16, 1864.
He then largely withdrew from political life. For his political merits he was finally on October 4, 1877 by decree of King Alfonso XII. appointed Senator for Life ( Senador Vitalicio ) .
For his 200th birthday, the Spanish Post issued a special stamp.
literature
- Hueso Chercoles, Ricardo: "Un Asturiano Ministro de Hacienda - Don Alejandro Mon y Menéndez" , Oviedo 1973
- Comin, Francisco / Vallejo Pousada, Rafael: "Alejandro Mon y Menéndez 1801 - 1882: Pensamiento y Reforma de la Hacienda" , Madrid 2002, ISBN 9788480080958
Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Spanish Prime Ministers ( Memento of June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- The cabinets during the reign of Isabella II (1833–1843 - Les Regències)
- The cabinets during the reign of Isabella II (1843–1856 - Década Moderada)
- The cabinets during the reign of Isabella II (1856–1868 - La Unión Liberal)
- The governments of the Kingdom of Spain from 1833 to 1868 ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
- ↑ List of Treasury Ministers ( Memento of December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of Foreign Ministers ( Memento of December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Terms of office as President of Parliament
- ↑ Members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas - Armchair 36 ( Memento from August 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Senate between 1834 and 1923 - Senators , accessed June 7, 2017.
- ↑ Bicentenario del nacimiento de ALEJANDRO MON. 18O1-2OO1
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Lorenzo Arrazola García |
Prime Minister of Spain 1864 |
Ramón María Narváez |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mon Menéndez, Alejandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mon y Menéndez, Alejandro; Mon, Alejandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Spain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oviedo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1882 |
| Place of death | Oviedo |