Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar
Manuel de Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar ( born August 24, 1856 in Guernica, † May 17, 1923 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ).
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Biography
Study, MP and Senator
After completing his schooling he began a study of agricultural science. After graduating as an agricultural engineer in 1879, he worked as a professor at the Engineering School ( Escuela de Ingeniería ) operates.
His political career began on 27 April 1884, the first election for members of the Congress of Deputies ( Congreso de los Deputies ), where he represented the interests of the constituency Vizcaya as a member of the Conservative Party Constitution to 5 March 1893.
In the election of 10 April 1898 he was elected a member of the Senate, in which he first represented the province of Lleida in the legislature from 1898 to 1899, however, already on May 2, 1900 by Royal Decree for a senator for life ( Senador Vitalicio ) appointed been.
In 1900 he was for a short time mayor ( alcalde ) of Madrid.
Minister
On July 6, 1900, he was appointed by Francisco Silvela Le Much Leuze as part of a cabinet reshuffle to Treasury Secretary ( Ministro de Hacienda ). This office he retained also in the subsequent government of Marcelo Azcarraga Palmero of 23 October 1900 to 6 March 1901. From December 6, 1902 to July 20, 1903, he was the second cabinet of Silvela as Minister of Public Instruction and fine Arts at ( Ministro de Instrucción y Bellas Artes ).
Antonio Maura Montaner appointed him on December 5, 1903 Minister of Agriculture, Industry, Trade and Public Works ( Ministro de Agricultura, Industria, Comercio y Obras Públicas ) in his first cabinet, where he remained one year, until December 5, 1904. During this time he was also acting Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) during the absence of the incumbent and then from 5 to December 16, 1904 Minister of the Interior in July and August 1904. As Minister of Agriculture, he sat down one particularly for the funding of projects for the recovery of arable land was made fertile by irrigation in the dry land.
He was then in December 1904 the first Governor of the Bank of Spain ( Banco de España) and held that post until his resignation on 19 December 1905.
Took place on January 25, 1907 by Maura Montaner his appointment as Foreign Minister ( Ministro de Estado ). As such, he had until October 21, 1909 Office.
He then retired for more than ten years from the government's policy to engage in commercial enterprises such as the tobacco monopoly administration ( Tabacalera ). From April to December 1919, he was again governor of the Bank of Spain.
At the same time he was from June to December 1919 he was also President of the Senate.
Two-time Prime Minister
On December 12, 1919, he was the successor of Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo first self Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ). In his reigning until May 5, 1920 Government he took over temporarily for one week in December 1919, the Office of the acting War Minister ( Ministro de Guerra ) and the acting interior minister. In February 1920, he was also three days acting Development Minister ( Ministro de Fomento ) and from 17 March to 5 May 1920, Acting Secretary of the Navy ( Ministro de Marina).
On March 13, 1921, he broke Gabino Bugallal Araújo from as Prime Minister. After the crushing defeat of the Spanish army against the Riffs at the Battle of Annual on July 22, 1921 during the Rifkrieges, the disaster of Annual ( Desastre de Annual ) so called, he had after a subsequent internal political crisis and the need for a rethinking the colonial policy to submit his resignation on 14 August 1921 and was replaced by Maura Montaner.