Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Died 1950-09-11.
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones was a Spanish politician and businessman. He served as Prime Minister three times between 1912 and 1918, president of the Senate, president of the Congress of Deputies, Mayor of Madrid and many times as cabinet minister. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Romanones, who built an extensive political network, exerted a tight control on the political…
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Born 9 May 1863 · Died 11 September 1950 · Q250975
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1950· 1 entry
1943· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: procurador en Cortes (1943–1946).
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1937· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
And, having become an ardent supporter of Francisco Franco, he was one of the signatories of the Advisory Opinion on the Illegitimacy of the Acting Powers on the 18th of July 1936, an ad-hoc juridical report commissioned
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1931· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Showed that the monarchy was unpopular so he advised Alfonso XIII to leave Spain
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of State of Spain (1931–1931).
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1923· 3 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Senator of the Kingdom (1923–1923).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: President of the Spanish Senate (1923–1923).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Serving in such capacity when the military coup of Miguel Primo de Rivera took place on 13 September 1923
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1918· 3 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of Grace and Justice (1918–1918).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of State of Spain (1918–1919).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: President of the Council of Ministers (1918–1919).
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1916· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of State of Spain (1916–1916).
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1915· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: President of the Council of Ministers (1915–1917).
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1913· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of Grace and Justice (1913–1913).
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Valencian artist Asensio Gómez Salvador created a monumental illuminated vellum manuscript reproducing Romanones’s parliamentary speech on monetary stabilization
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1912· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: President of the Council of Ministers (1912–1913).
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1910· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts (1910–1910).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: President of the Congress of Deputies (1910–1912).
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1909· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
And later promoted to the presidency of the House of Representatives (Congreso de los Diputados) in 1912
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1906· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of Grace and Justice (1906–1906).
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: ministro de Gobernación (1906–1907).
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1905· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: Minister of Development of Spain (1905–1906).
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Career landmark: ministro de Gobernación (1905–1906).
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1903· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Founded a new political newspaper, Diario Universal, replacing El Globo, which had been sold to Emilio Rius y Periquet
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1901· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts (1901–1902).
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Incorporated primary education teachers' salaries (hitherto dependent on the local administrations) in the State budget, securing the teachers economic autonomy and curbing the influence of caciquismo in education
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1896· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Acquired a daily newspaper, El Globo, based in Madrid, appointing Francos Rodríguez as editor and tilting the editorial line from republicanism to liberal monarchism
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1893· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
And Grandee of Spain in 1911, as well as 7th Count of Yebes in 1922
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1892· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
So much that the offended called for a duel, which was held on 10 July 1892 in Leganés
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1888· 2 entries
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Career landmark: member of the Congress of Deputies (1888–1923).
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Became member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Guadalajara for the first time, elected in a by-election to fill a vacant seat
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1863· 1 entry
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
Born 1863-05-09.
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