Evaristo Pérez de Castro Brito
Evaristo Pérez de Castro Brito (* 1778 in Valladolid , † 1848 in Madrid ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente de Gobierno ) .
Life
Spanish War of Independence and reign of Ferdinand VII.
After attending school, Pérez de Castro initially studied at the University of Alcalá and the Academia de Santa María. Subsequently, in 1798 he worked at the embassy in Vienna and later became the office manager of the State Secretariat.
He was already politically active during the Spanish War of Independence as a member of the Cortes of Cádiz and as the author of a paper in which King Joseph Bonaparte demanded the sovereignty of Spain from France . From 1809 to 1810 he was a negotiator in Portugal .
The first law passed by the Cortes of Cádiz on September 24, 1810, bears the signature of the chairman and Perez de Castro as secretary. While the Cortes were still in session, the government council sent him to Bayonne to meet Ferdinand VII , who was at the time in Napoleonic captivity.
After the reinstatement of Ferdinand VII as king on the basis of the Treaty of Valençay of December 11, 1813, he was Minister-Resident in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1817 to 1820 .
During the Trienio Liberal he was Foreign Minister (Ministro de Estado) from March 18, 1820 to March 2, 1821 and thus de facto Prime Minister. At the same time he was Minister for Appeals for Mercy and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ) and as such responsible for the amnesty of April 23, 1820, which enabled the return of the politicians who fled to France after the reinstatement of Ferdinand VII.
It was only after the period known as the Ominous Decade ( Década Ominosa ) after the French invasion of Spain in 1823 and the death of Ferdinand VII on September 29, 1833 that he was again active as a diplomat.
Reign of Isabella II and Prime Minister
Between 1834 and 1835 he was a member of the Senate.
After the proclamation of the constitution of 1837 , he took increasingly more moderate positions. In the course of internal unrest he was then appointed by the regent Maria Christina of Sicily on December 9, 1838 as the successor to Bernardino Fernández De Velasco as Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente de Gobierno ) . As such, he formed a cabinet consisting mainly of moderate and progressive politicians, in which he himself also took over the office of Foreign Minister ( Ministro de Estado ).
His reign was marked by two major government reshuffles in November 1839 and March 1840 as well as the interim dismissal of various ministers.
On the other hand, it was during his tenure in his name and that of the regent on August 29 in 1839 by General Baldomero Espartero the Agreement of Oñate signed, which the First Carlist War ended. Furthermore, a new electoral law was passed that provided for the establishment of smaller constituencies in favor of the moderates.
On July 20, 1840 he was dismissed by the regent as Prime Minister and replaced by the former Minister of Justice Antonio González González . During this time he was again Senator as representative of the province of Valladolid . After General Espartero finally became Prime Minister himself on September 16, 1840 after several short-lived governments, Pérez de Castro went into exile in France in 1841, from which he only returned on July 22, 1843 after the fall of Espartero.
On August 15, 1845 he was appointed Senator for Life ( Senador Vitalicio ).
Writer and patron
Pérez de Castro was also the editor of the correspondence between the Spanish Minister of State Manuel de Godoy and Queen Maria Luise of Bourbon-Parma in 1814 under the title "Una correspondencia de Godoy con la reina María Luisa" .
He was also one of the main sponsors of the painter Francisco de Goya , who immortalized him in one of his works.
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Web links
- The cabinets during the tenure of Ferdinand VII. (1808–1833)
- The cabinets during the tenure of Isabella II (1833–1843)
- The governments of the Kingdom of Spain from 1833 to 1868 ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ List of ministers of state
- ↑ a b The Senate between 1834 and 1923 - Senators , accessed June 7, 2017.
- ^ The Pérez Cabinet ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Bernardino Fernández de Velasco |
Prime Minister of Spain 1838 - 1840 |
Antonio González González |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pérez de Castro Brito, Evaristo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Spain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valladolid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1848 |
| Place of death | Madrid |