Diego Martínez Barrio

Diego Martínez Barrio
President of the Spanish Republic Interim
In office 7 April 1936 – 10 May 1936
Preceded by	Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Succeeded by	Manuel Azaña
Prime Minister of Spain
In office 8 October 1933 – 16 December 1933
Preceded by	Alejandro Lerroux
Succeeded by	Alejandro Lerroux
In office 19 July 1936 – 19 July 1936
Preceded by	Santiago Casares Quiroga
Succeeded by	José Giral
Personal details
Born	25 November 1883 Seville, Spain
Died	1 January 1962 (aged 78) Paris, France
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	Republican Union Party
Profession	politician, journalist

Diego Martínez Barrio (25 November 1883, Seville – 1 January 1962) was a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic, Prime Minister of Spain between 9 October 1933 and 26 December 1933^[1] and was briefly appointed again by Manuel Azaña after the resignation of Santiago Casares Quiroga, on 19 July 1936 - three days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. From 16 March 1936 to 30 March 1939 Martínez was President of the Cortes. In 1936, he briefly was interim President of the Second Spanish Republic from 7 April to 10 of May.

Biography

Barrio was born in Seville. A member of the Radical Republican Party, he was the Minister in the Alejandro Lerroux government, although later he left the party due to his dissatisfaction with the politics of Lerroux.^[2]

Martínez consequently founded and led the Republican Union Party and participated in the Spanish Popular Front,^[3] being elected to government in 1936. He led the integration of the Republican Union Party into the Popular Front, being elected the speaker of the Cortes (Spanish Parliament).^[4] In February 1939, he rejected to replace Manuel Azaña as president of the Republic.^[5] He fled the country after Francisco Franco came to power in 1939.^[6]

He was the Grand Master of the Grande Oriente Español from 1929 to 1934.^[7]

After the fall of the Republic he went into exile, first to France and then to Mexico where in 1945 he was designated president of the Republic in exile^[8] until 1962.^[9] Martínez finally returned to Paris, where he died.

In 2000, his remains were moved to Seville.

References

1. http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=467700
2. Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p. 123
3. Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p. 185
4. Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The spanish civil war. Penguin Books. London. p. 152
5. Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p. 485
6. Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The spanish civil war. Penguin Books. London. p. 895
7. 1863-1923, Brief History of the Spanish Masonry
8. Beevor, Antony. (2006). The battle for Spain. The spanish civil war, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. p. 423
9. Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The spanish civil war. Penguin Books. London. p. 923.

Bibliography

• Beevor, Antony. The battle for Spain. The Spanish civil war. Penguin Books. 2006. London. ISBN 0-14-303765-X.
• Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5