Florencio García Goyena

Florencio García Goyena Orovia (born October 27, 1783 in Tafalla , Navarra , † June 3, 1855 in Madrid ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .

Life

Study and rule of Ferdinand VII.

García Goyena studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Salamanca and then worked as a lawyer before becoming in 1816 syndic and legal advisor to the Parliament ( Cortes ) and the Parliamentary Assembly ( Diputación ) of Navarre .

After the revolution of January 1820 he became political leader of León . Due to his liberal outlook, however, after the French invasion of Spain and the subsequent renewed rule of the absolutist King Ferdinand VII. In 1823 he had to go into exile in France .

Reign of Isabella II and Prime Minister

Only after the death of Ferdinand VII in September 1833 and the beginning of the reign of Queen Isabella II did he return to Spain.

In the following time he was public prosecutor in Burgos in 1834 and then magistrate of Gipuzkoa . He was later appointed civil governor of Granada and Saragossa in 1835 , before becoming president of the courts of Valencia and Burgos in 1836 . He was then appointed judge of the Supreme Court ( Tribunal Suprema ), where he was appointed President of the Chamber responsible for the Spanish East Indies ( Sala de Indias ).

His actual political career began on July 24, 1839 , when he was elected Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Diputados ), where he represented the interests of the constituency of Navarre for two legislative terms until February 1841 . Later he was a member of the Senate as representative of the Navarre Province during the legislature from 1844 to 1845 .

On 31 August 1847 he was to succeed Joaquín Francisco Pacheco Gutierrez to Prime Ministers of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) appointed. However, he did not succeed in forming a permanent government, so that he was replaced on October 4, 1847 by Ramón María Narváez . In his government he then took over from September 3, 1847, the office of Minister for Appeals for Mercy and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ).

Legal scholar

Due to his in-depth legal knowledge, he was also appointed to the Codification Committee set up by Justice Minister Joaquín María López López in 1843 to draw up a Spanish Civil Code, on the draft of which he had been instrumental since 1846. The codification , presented in 1851 and essentially based on the French Civil Code of 1804 , was never introduced. It was not until 1889 that a completely new Spanish civil code was introduced, which, however, differed greatly from the earlier draft.

As a supporter of the English legal scholar Sir William Blackstone and English criminal law, he stood against the principle of proportionality in the sentencing of Cesare Beccaria , taking into account the institution of the jury . In addition, he advocated a change in leasehold law and the introduction of the habeas corpus principle in Spanish legislation.

After all, he was the author of several legal specialist books such as:

• Código criminal español según las leyes y prácticas vigentes , 1843 (“The Spanish penal code taking into account the laws and customs in force”)
• Concordancias, motivos y comentarios al Código Civil español , 1852 (" Concordance , introduction and commentary on the Spanish Civil Code")

Web links

• Biography on the homepage of the Spanish Prime Ministers (Spanish)
• The cabinets during the term of office of Isabella II (1843–1856 - Década Moderada)
• The governments of the Kingdom of Spain from 1833 to 1868 ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography (spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
2. ^ The Senate between 1834 and 1923 - Senators , accessed June 7, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Joaquín Francisco Pacheco Gutiérrez	Prime Minister of Spain 1847	Ramón María Narváez