José de Gálvez

José Bernardo de Gálvez y Gallardo ( born January 2, 1720 in Macharaviaya in the Spanish province of Málaga, † June 17, 1787 in Aranjuez), Marqués de Sonora, was a Spanish nobleman, officials and ministers.

He was the second son of Antonio Gálvez y Carbajal and Ana Gallardo Jurado. Under the influence of the Bishop of Malaga, he began training at the seminary of Malaga. Soon, however, he moved on to the University of Alcalá to study the law. He then settled down as a lawyer in Madrid, in which office he was very successful. About a job at the Embassy of France he came into contact with the Spanish court, and eventually became secretary of the Spanish minister of state Jerónimo Grimaldi. In 1764 he was appointed judge ( Alcalde de Casa y Corte ) and 1765 determined by the surprising death of the designated General Visitors of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Spanish possessions in North and Central America in the short term as his successor. He spent seven years until 1772 in this office in the new world, where he earned a reformer to the strengthening and preservation of the influence of the Spanish crown. After his return to Spain in 1772 he became Minister of India, thus becoming responsible for the whole of the Spanish possessions in North and South America. In 1785 he founded the Archivo General de Indias, a central archive for documents about the Spanish possessions in America. His King Charles III. (Spain ), he was considered extremely capable. In return for which he was awarded the title of Marqués de Sonora, a company founded by him and prosperous colony in what was then northern Mexico, today the U.S. state of Texas.

• Politicians (Spain )
• Member of the India Council
• Spaniard
• Born in 1720
• Died in 1787
• Man