Gabino Bugallal Araújo
Gabino Bugallal Araújo , Count ( Conde ) de Bugallal (born February 19, 1861 in Ponteareas , † June 30, 1932 in Paris ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .
biography
Study and MP
After studying law , he worked as a lawyer, but began his political career on April 4, 1886 when he was first elected Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Diputados ), where he worked for over forty years until September 12, 1927 Represented the interests of the constituency of Pontevedra , later those of Ourense and at times of Alicante .
minister
On July 20, 1903, Bugallal Araújo was appointed to a government for the first time by Raimundo Fernández Villaverde as Minister for Public Education and Fine Arts ( Ministro de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes ) and held this office until the end of Fernández Villaverde's reign on December 5, 1903 .
After ten years of no government, he was appointed Minister of the Treasury ( Ministro de Hacienda ) by Eduardo Dato Iradier on October 27, 1913 , an office he held until December 9, 1915. During this time he was also acting Minister for Public Education and Fine Arts from December 1914 to January 1915.
On June 11, 1917, he also became a member of the second government of Dato Iradier as Minister of the Treasury and held this office until November 3, 1917. Under Prime Minister Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo he was again Minister of the Treasury from July 20, 1919 and retained this office under the subsequent government of Manuel Allendesalazar Muñoz de Salazar from December 12, 1919 to May 5, 1920.
In the following cabinet of Dato Iradier he was until September 1, 1920 first Minister for Appeals for Mercy and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ) and then Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ).
Prime Minister
After Dato Iradier was shot dead by three Catalan anarchists on March 8, 1921 while leaving the parliament building in Madrid , Bugallal Araújo was appointed Minister of the Interior to King Alfonso XIII. appointed incumbent Prime Minister ( Presidente del Gobierno ) of a transitional government. As before as Minister of the Interior, he pursued a strict policy of ending social conflicts. His efforts against the will of Maura Montaner to form a homogeneous conservative government, however, failed.
After a five-day term of office, however, he handed this office over to Allendesalazar Muñoz de Salazar, in whose government he continued to hold the post of interior minister until August 14, 1921.
From March 15, 1922 to April 6, 1923 he was President of the Congress of Deputies. As a staunch supporter of the monarchy, he was a strict opponent of the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, which lasted between September 1923 and January 1930 .
In the cabinet of Juan Bautista Aznar Cabañas , the last government during the reign of King Alfonso XIII, he was finally from February 18 to April 14, 1931 Minister for the National Economy ( Ministro de Economía Nacional ). After the victory of the republican- oriented parties under Niceto Alcalá Zamora , he was the only well-known government politician who demanded the use of the army to defend the monarchy . In 1931 he was next to Álvaro Figueroa Torres also chairman of the Partido Liberal .
Honorary positions and awards
Because of his political merits, he became a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas on July 2, 1919 , where he occupied the armchair ( Sillón ) 11 until his death . His inaugural address, the 103rd in the history of the Academy, he gave on May 15, 1921 on the subject of Parliamentary Inviolability ( Inviolabilidad parlamentaria ).
He was also a member of the Royal Galician Academy ( Real Academia Galego ).
As the most important politician in his hometown, a monument was erected in 1956 in the city park of Ponteareas.
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Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Spanish Prime Ministers ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- The governments during the reign of Alfonso XIII. (1902-1931)
- Payne, Stanley G .: "A History of Spain and Portugal (Vol. 2) - Chapter 24: Climax and Collapse of Spanish Liberalism, 1899-1931"
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
- ↑ List of Treasury Ministers ( Memento of December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Presidents of Congress and the Senate
- ↑ Members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas - Armchair 11 ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Speeches at the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences ( Memento of December 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Member of the Royal Galician Academy - letter B
- ↑ "Gabino Bugallal fue el superministro ponteareano" , article in La Voz de Galicia of September 30, 2007
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo |
Prime Minister of Spain 1921 |
Eduardo Dato Iradier |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bugallal Araújo, Gabino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gabino Bugallal Araújo, Count of Bugallal; Gabino Bugallal Araújo, Conde de Bugallal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Spain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ponteareas |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1932 |
| Place of death | Paris |