Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Marquis of Pozo Rubio
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde y García del Rivero, Marquis ( Marquis ) de Pozo Rubio ( born January 20, 1848 in Madrid, † July 15, 1905 ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ).
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Life
Study and career
Following the acquisition of higher education entrance qualification ( Bachillerato ) at the Instituto de San Isidro he studied law at the Universidad Central in Madrid, where he graduated in 1869 with the Licenció. After earning a doctorate in law in commercial law and domestic law, he was eventually appointed associate professor at the Universidad Central.
1877 he was appointed Director General of the Local Government ( Local adminstracion ), before he was in the following year for two years Director General of the special department of the State Administration ( Intervención General de la Administración del Estado ).
MP and Minister
His political career started already on 24 August 1872 as he was a member of the Conservative Party ( Partido Conservador de Nicaragua) Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Deputies ) has been selected, where he consistently represented the electoral district of Pontevedra until his death.
On March 22, 1880, he was appointed as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Treasury, where he worked on February 8, 1881 until the formation of the Cabinet of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. After his appointment to the civil governor of Madrid on March 31, 1884, he was first appointed as Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) in the government on 13 July 1885, belonged to the fourth Cabinet of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo to 27 November 1885. As a minister he had previously justified in particular by the new government measures which had led to uprisings of retailers in Madrid.
Cánovas del Castillo then appointed him after re- gain of power by the Conservative Party on July 5, 1890 Minister of clemency petitions and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ). As such, he belonged to the Government initially until November 23, 1891, then went for his political proximity to Francisco Silvela Le Much Leuze after his disagreements with Francisco Romero Robledo, before he from June 25 to November 30, 1892 again Minister of the Interior of the Government Cánovas was.
In the following years he initially served no important offices and more subject Silvela even in the successor to the chair of the Conservative Party, Cánovas death on August 8, 1897.
On March 4, 1899 but he was appointed Treasury Minister ( Ministro de Hacienda ) in the cabinet of Silvela Le Villeuze. In this first government after the " disaster" of 1898 he laid already on June 17, 1899 before the budget law and budget preparation for the financial year 1900. During his last until July 6, 1900 belonging to the government, he was also until April 25, 1899 Last Colonial Secretary ( Ministro Ultramar ).
Parliament President and Prime Minister
On November 20, 1900, he was first elected to parliament president ( Presidente de la Cámara ) and remained until April 25, 1901 in office. Prime Minister Silvela Le Villeuze called him on December 6, 1902 in his second cabinet to the Secretary of the Treasury, but replaced him even during the term of office on March 25, 1903 after it between them to disagreements because of the restructuring of the fleet and the resulting impact on the budget balance came. After that he was on May 19, 1903 to September 12, 1904 re-elected president of the Parliament.
On 20 July 1903 he was at the same time as Silvelas successor to the first Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ) appointed a transitional government, but this office exercised only until 5 December 1903 and was then replaced by Antonio Maura Montaner.
As the successor Marcelo Azcarraga Palmero he was then on January 27, 1905 Prime Minister again. However, he was forced to resign this time after only five months in office on 23 June 1905 after restricting the opposition he wanted to dissolve the Parliament, which was rejected both by the Senate on June 17, as well as by Congress on June 20, 1905. Less than a month after his resignation he died then in Madrid.
Honorary Appointments
On April 10, 1888 he became a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas and took there until his death in the chair 3 a .. In this time he held on May 19, 1889 speech on the topic " Consideraciones histórico - Críticas Acerca del Sufragio universal como órgano de la representación política en las sociedades modernas " (Historical - Critical reflections on the general suffrage as an organ of political representation in modern societies ). In addition, he was on December 15, 1898 Member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española ), where he held the chair ( Sillón ) g, he could, however, occupy only officially on 23 November 1902.