Antonio Maura

Antonio Maura there Montaner , born with Palma de Majorque on May 2nd, 1853 and dead on December 13rd, 1925 with Torrelodones, close to Madrid, was a Spanish politician, who was president of the government with five recoveries.

After having followed the lawyer occupation, it began his political career in the liberal camp, and represents Palma in the Cortes as from 1881. It takes share with the movement regenerationnist. Antonio Maura becomes vice-president of the Congress in 1886; from 1892 to 1894, he is minister of Outre-mer in the government Sagasta. Its project for the autonomy of Cuba is rejected by the Congress. From 1894 to 1895, he is Minister for Justice, always in a government directed by Sagasta.

In 1901, it enters a dissenting liberal group, before joining the conservative camp in 1902 - without breaking for as much with the regenerationnism. Its objective remains the eradication of the Caciquisme. It takes the head of the Conservative party in 1903, following the resignation of Francisco Silvela, but is detached from this formation in 1913. Antonio Maura is the principal Spanish political personality of the first quarter of the 20th century, and exerts with five recoveries the load of president of the government:

of the December 5th 1903 with the December 16th 1904: it obtains in particular the recognition by France and England of the Spanish claims on the Morocco.
of the January 25th 1907 with the October 21st 1909: it carries out the war of Morocco and represses the rising of the “tragic Week” in Barcelona.
of the March 22nd to the November 9th 1918.
of the April 15th to the July 20th 1919.
of the August 14th 1921 with the March 8th 1922.

In 1923, he protests near the king Alphonse XIII against the introduction of the dictatorship of the Primo de Rivera general, and ceases any political activity. Several of the children of Antonio Maura played a big role in the political life and cultural Spanish; inter alia, Gabriel Maura, Minister for Labor in the last government of the reign of Alphonse XIII, Miguel Maura, Minister for the Government under the Second Republic, and Honorio Maura, appointed monarchist assassinated in 1936 by the anarchistic militia with Irún.

See too

Régénérationnisme

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